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pibroch

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pibroch
1. a form of music for Scottish bagpipes, consisting of a theme and variations
2. a piece of such music


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  Silence your pibroch, doff tartan and plume:
But Robin only held out his hand as if to ask for silence, and struck into the slow measure of a pibroch.
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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