Definitions for pibrochs

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pibrochs pi·broch

Spelling: [pee-brokh]

IPA: /ˈpi brɒx/

Pibrochs is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 297 anagrams from letters in pibrochs (bchioprs).

Definitions for pibrochs

noun

1. (in the Scottish Highlands) a piece of music for the bagpipe, consisting of a series of variations on a basic theme, usually martial in character, but sometimes used as a dirge.
2. (in the Scottish Highlands) a piece of music for the bagpipe, consisting of a series of variations on a basic theme, usually martial in character, but sometimes used as a dirge.

Origin of pibrochs

1710-20; Scots Gaelic piobaireachd piper music, equivalent to piobair piper (piob pipe¹ + -air agent suffix ≪ Latin -ārius -ary) +

Examples for pibrochs

If I had thocht o't I wad hae brocht my kilts and my pibroch and a' that.'

Does she think the pibroch could be taken down in a phonograph.

It is no pibroch there will be this night, for Donald is away.

The pibroch said to have been composed by Helen MacGregor is still in existence.

From hill to hill the pibroch leaps, and hearts and feet quicken at its sound.

I have told Donald what pibroch he will play; I want to be at peace now.

Gilian had the siubhal of the pibroch but begun when the blind man stopped him.

And as you can't compose another one, it may as well be the "pibroch."

Ere we start, Hamish, play us a Gathering—and then a pibroch.

And heard McDonald's guns in the valley and his pibroch on the hills.

From hill to hill the pibroch leaps, and hearts and feet quicken at its sound.

It is no pibroch there will be this night, for Donald is away.

And as you can't compose another one, it may as well be the "pibroch."

Ere we start, Hamish, play us a Gathering—and then a pibroch.

And heard McDonald's guns in the valley and his pibroch on the hills.

If I had thocht o't I wad hae brocht my kilts and my pibroch and a' that.'

Gilian had the siubhal of the pibroch but begun when the blind man stopped him.

I have told Donald what pibroch he will play; I want to be at peace now.

The pibroch said to have been composed by Helen MacGregor is still in existence.

Does she think the pibroch could be taken down in a phonograph.