单词 | pibgorn |
释义 | pibgornn. A form of hornpipe (hornpipe n. 1) traditionally played in parts of Wales and Cornwall. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > hornpipe hornpipe14.. pibgorn1770 1770 D. Barrington Mus. Instruments Wales in Archæol. (1775) 3 viii. 33 Another very rude musical instrument..scarcely used in any other part of North Wales, except the island of Anglesey, where it is called a Pib-corn. 1784 E. Jones Mus. Relicks Welsh Bards 43 The Pîbgorn or Horn Pipe, is so called, because both extremities are made of horn. 1815 P. Roberts Cambrian Antiq. 145 I suppose the Scotch Pipe, like the Welsh Pib-gorn, had but six finger-holes. 1844 Times 18 Nov. 4/2 (advt.) The Song of the Mountain Goat-herd... Played by M. Barret, in imitation of the ancient pibcorn, called by the Britons the pipe of peace. 1852 W. Wickenden Hunchback's Chest 214 Here and there a shepherd was seated on a grassy knoll playing his pigborn [sic]. 1921 W. S. G. Williams (title of song) I hear a shepherd's pibgorn. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 316 The Pibcorn, of Wales, dating from the eighteenth century, was a pastoral hornpipe. 1998 Scotsman (Nexis) 7 Apr. 19 The sextet also featured the blaring pibgorn—the Welsh equivalent of the stock-and-horn familiar in Scots pastoral images. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1770 |
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