Definition of "pibroch" []

• A series of variations on a martial theme or traditional dirge for the highland bagpipes. (noun)

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• "To this opinion Dr. Beattie has given his suffrage, in that following elegant passage: -- 'A pibroch is a species of tune, peculiar, I think, to the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland."
• "A pibroch would cry for the wounded man but I needed more - I needed something tougher."
• "British MP George Galloway, a supporter of the anti-Israeli boycott movement, in his relentless pibroch against the Jewish state compares the Palestinians to the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae."