bagpiper
Americannoun
plural
bagpiperExample Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Around 15,000 participants, led by bagpipers, walked through the city's historic centre late Monday as Hogmanay festivities returned after being cancelled last year due to bad weather.
From Barron's
“What a racket,” Madame Ionesco said appreciatively of the bagpiper, as she stumbled half asleep from the hired carriage and flashed her semitoothless grin.
From Literature
![]()
"The whole city came to a standstill at 11am. There were bagpipers at all the street corners. It was very moving."
From BBC
The group organised a farewell ceremony with bagpipers on Tuesday after learning that the ship was to be sunk the following morning.
From BBC
The talks at Turnberry began with the spectacle of the president gushing about the prime minister's wife, Victoria, as she stood alongside him, the entire conversation almost drowned out by a nearby bagpiper.
From BBC
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.