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pibroch

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pi·broch  (pbr)
n.
A series of variations on a martial theme or traditional dirge for the highland bagpipes.
[Scottish Gaelic pìobaireachd, pipe music, from pìobair, piper, from pìob, pipe, from Middle Irish píp, from Medieval Latin ppa, from Vulgar Latin *ppa; see pipe.]
pibroch [ˈpiːbrɒk (Gaelic) ˈpiːbrɒx]
n
1. (Music, other) a form of music for Scottish bagpipes, consisting of a theme and variations
2. (Music, other) a piece of such music
[from Gaelic piobaireachd, from piobair piper]
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Noun1.pibroch - martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes
martial music, military march, military music - brisk marching music suitable for troops marching in a military parade


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  Silence your pibroch, doff tartan and plume:
The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
But Robin only held out his hand as if to ask for silence, and struck into the slow measure of a pibroch.
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In spite of her immense age (three, years), it rang between the canon-like frames as a pibroch rings in a mountain pass; the fanners changed their note, and repeated it up in every gallery; and the broad-winged drones, burly and eager, ended it on one nerve-thrilling outbreak of bugles: "La Reine le veult
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