pibroch

/ˈpiːbɹɒk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English

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noun

"Ever, as on they bore, more loud / And louder rung the pibroch proud."
"He had heard the stirring pibrochs speed the Gordons in their fights, / It had borne them through the fire zone as they swung up Dargai's heights […]"
"Halfway through The Big Music, Kirsty Gunn notes that piobaireachd, a particular form of bagpipe composition, sounds ‘foreign and strange’ to those not raised on it."

From Scottish Gaelic pìobaireachd (“act of playing the bagpipes”), from pìobaire (“piper”) + -achd (“abstract noun suffix”).

pibrochs (plural) piobaireachd (alternative)

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How do you pronounce pibroch?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpiːbɹɒk/.

What does pibroch mean?

Where does pibroch come from?

From Scottish Gaelic pìobaireachd (“act of playing the bagpipes”), from pìobaire (“piper”) + -achd (“abstract noun suffix”).

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