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shantrews Sc.|ʃanˈtruz| Also 9 shawintrewse, shantreus. [? Gael. sean-triubhas, old trousers.] The name of a Highland tune and dance.
1807Tannahill Poems, Kebbuckston Wedding (1846) 139 Sauney M'Nab..Has hecht to..gi'e us three wallops of merry shan trews, With the true Highland fling of Macrimmon the piper. 1881Autobiog. J. Younger viii. 71, I was then allowed..to skip over the old barn floor at shantrews. |