uilleann piper
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who plays uilleann pipes.
Example Sentences
- "Associated with The Long Note, he became its producer in 1978, in this series devoting time to documentary features, such as that on nineteenth-century uilleann piper and composer, Johnny Patterson."
- "A twentieth-century master uilleann piper and mentor of many of today's finest pipers."
- "He went on to become one of Ireland's foremost uilleann pipers [...]"
- "Uilleann bagpipes in Ireland differ from Scottish pipes in that the uilleann piper uses bellows under the arm to keep the bag full rather than blowing into the bag."