pibroch

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PI'BROCH, 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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