Definition of "strathspey" []

• A Scottish dance, slower than a reel, for two dancers. (noun)
• The music for this dance. (noun)

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• "A classic march, strathspey, and reel performance from 23 years ago:"
• "It's called "Johnnie Lad" and she delivered it in Scots dialect to the heart-catching original strathspey tempo."
• "As the exhibits regarding the origins of the "Auld Lang Syne" melody show, these kinds of strathspey dance tunes were in circulation long before this one first became associated with Burns's poem in Thomson's "Select Collection" —published in 1799, shortly after the poet's death."