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Webster 1913 Edition

Pibroch

Pi′broch

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Noun.
[Gael.
piobaireachd
pipe music, fr.
piobair
a piper, fr.
pioba
pipe, bagpipe, from English. See
Pipe
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Noun.
]
A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.
Jamieson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pibroch

PI'BROCH

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Noun.
A wild irregular species of music, peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland. It is performed on a bagpipe, and adapted to excite or assuage passion, and particularly to rouse a martial spirit among troops going to battle.

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