单词 | pibroch |
释义 | pibrochn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1719 |
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