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单词 pibroch
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pibrochn.

Brit. /ˈpiːbrɒx/, /ˈpiːbrɒk/, U.S. /ˈpiˌbrɑx/, /ˈpiˌbrɑk/
Forms: 1700s– pibrach (rare), 1700s– pibroch, 1800s pibrochd, 1800s pibrock, 1800s– piobaireachd; also Scottish 1700s peebruch, 1700s pibrough, 1700s pibruch, 1700s–1800s pibrugh, 1800s peebroch.
Origin: A borrowing from Scottish Gaelic. Etymon: Scottish Gaelic pìobaireachd.
Etymology: < Scottish Gaelic pìobaireachd the act of playing the bagpipe, bagpipe music < pìobaire a piper ( < pìob pipe n.1 + -aire , suffix forming agent nouns (perhaps compare -er suffix1) + -achd, suffix forming abstract nouns. Compare Irish píobaireacht.In Scottish Gaelic, the term pìobaireachd denotes any kind of bagpipe music. The application to ceremonial tunes is a development within English; in Scottish Gaelic, such tunes are referred to as ceòl mór, lit. ‘great music’. In form piobaireachd after the Gaelic form.
1. A type of music for the Scottish bagpipes, generally of a ceremonial character, consisting of variations on a theme or ground (see urlar n.). As a count noun: a piece of such music. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > music on specific instrument > [noun] > wind music > on bagpipe
loure1706
pibroch1719
urlar1889
1719 E. Wardlaw Hardyknute in J. Maidment Sc. Ballads (1868) I. 19 While playand pibrochs, minstralls meit Afore him statly strade.
?1760 S. Haliburton Mem. Magopico xiii. 40 He breaks your Rest with a Jigg, and rushes on you with all the martial Strains of a Peebruch.
1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 275 A certain species of this wind music, called pibrachs, rouzes the native Highlander in the same way that the sound of the trumpet does the war-horse.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 65 Some pipe of war Sends the bold pibroch from afar.
1860 C. Sangster Hesperus 81 The storm..shouts its mighty pibroch o'er some shipwrecked vessel's grave.
1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India III. ix. iv. 636 They cheered and charged with the bayonet, the pipes sounding the pibroch.
1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 65 The pibroch of the creaking shrouds.
1955 Times 26 Aug. 8/3 It..prevents local pipers who live in outlying parts of Skye from hearing the pibroch.
2000 C. Thayer Certain Slant of Light ix. 80 When he was competing, he knew most of the piobaireachds by heart, and the rest were at least familiar.
2. The bagpipes; a set of bagpipes. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > bagpipe
bagc1275
stivec1290
cornemusec1384
musettea1393
bagpipec1405
pair1422
pipec1450
muse1484
drone1502
lilt-pipea1525
great pipe1592
miskin1593
Highland pipe1599
small-pipes1656
piffero1724
Highland bagpipe1728
zampogna1740
union pipes1788
Lowland pipes1794
pibroch1807
piob mhor1838
gaita1846
sack pipe1889
set1893
biniou1902
uillean pipes1906
1807 Ld. Byron Oscar of Alva in Wks. (1898) I. 133 They feast upon the mountain deer, The Pibroch rais'd its piercing note.
1887 I. F. Hapgood tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables II. i. x. 29 The bagpipe-player in the centre dropped his melancholy eyes..and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under his arm, played the Highland airs.
1991 P. Sweeney Virgin Directory World Music 87 The pibroch (bagpipe) is not the only instrument at which the Scottish traditionally excel.

Derivatives

ˈpibroch-like adj.
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1872 W. Murdoch Poems & Songs (ed. 2) 96 Nothing was heard From that lonely churchyard, But pibroch-like sounds, And mirth without bounds.
1986 Scotsman Mag. Aug. 5 She has composed a theme and six piobaireachd-like variations for the harp.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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