bagpiper
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- noun
- /ˈbæɡˌpaɪpər/
:
gaitero
- So at dawn, Duncan and a group of Forty-second Highlanders, taking with them a bagpiper for communication and morale, set out toward the falls, led by the American colonial scout, Horatio "Polecat" Spotswood.
- Scottish bagpiper
- bagpiper plays
- lone bagpiper
Examples
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The lone bagpiper stops and an officer on trumpet begins playing "Taps."
Fiction book (1990) -
A third bagpiper, farther away still, begins playing the song with the other two.
Fiction book (2002) -
A bagpiper plays "Amazing Grace."
Fiction book (2002) -
The bagpiper who played for at least 10 minutes before the service was absolute perfection to my musical ear.
Blog text (29) -
In the front, several paces ahead of the neatly marching lines of men, is a single bagpiper.
Fiction book (1990) -
The procession stops, and the lone bagpiper continues to play the dirge as he walks up and takes his position on a section of lawn.
Fiction book (1990) -
One by one, the first and second bagpipers finish their rounds, until there is just the third—a haunting, mournful wail off into the distance.
Fiction book (2002) -
17-year-old Jeremy Hicks wore a Scottish bagpipers outfit to his junior prom that included a plaid kilt, a feathered hat and a traditional knife known as a sgian-dubh.
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William moves to the top of the hill where his ancestors are buried and discovers a haunting scene: two dozen men, the farmer-warriors of his neighborhood, are gathered in kilts—and among them, a core of bagpipers.
Fiction book (1995) -
The bagpiper played a haunting melody during the wedding ceremony.
Synonyms
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A person who plays the bagpipes at ceremonies and public events
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bagpiper breaks into bag and piper, where bag is a container for air and piper comes from pipe, meaning a wind instrument or 'pipe'. So a bagpiper is literally someone who plays pipes by using a bag to hold the air for the sound.