gaitan.
A Spanish musical instrument resembling the bagpipes.
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1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain vii. 77 The tune of the gaita, or Moorish bagpipe.
1922 Glasgow Herald 14 Aug. 4 Within the deep, wide recess of the chimney the son of the house is singing to the accompaniment of the ‘gaita’.
1927 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 Oct. 758/2 Their little gaitas (bagpipes) tasselled with the national colours of red and yellow.
1967 ‘La Meri’ Spanish Dancing (ed. 2) ii. 32 The gaita..is a bagpipe, green in color, which is the same as the better-known bagpipes of Scotland and Ireland.
Derivatives
gaiˈtero n. a piper.
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1927 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 Oct. 758/2 A famous band of gaiteros, or pipers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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