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bagpipes

/ ˈbæɡˌpaɪps /

plural noun

  1. any of a family of musical wind instruments in which sounds are produced in reed pipes supplied with air from a bag inflated either by the player's mouth, as in the Irish bagpipes or Highland bagpipes of Scotland, or by arm-operated bellows, as in the Northumbrian bagpipes


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Example Sentences

There will be prayers, a moment of silence, bagpipes and a military flyover.

This Scottish fighter came in with a full honor guard, bagpipes, kilts, the whole kit.

She speaks to Doug Stanton about her love of very fast cars, mythology, and the Bulgarian bagpipes.

[Laughing] Do you want me to tell you the story of the Bulgarian bagpipes?

When I was in high school, I started playing the Scottish Highland bagpipes competitively.

Everybody was laughing and singing to the tune of an Irish jig that Norah's father was playing on the bagpipes.

Dr. Farquharson preceeds him with bagpipes, which seemed to-night to have just a slight touch of influenza.

Now or never was their opportunity to gain the “Goat and Bagpipes” unobserved and change their tell-tale garments.

Mantles speckled with colour they wore, and above them were nine bagpipes, four-tuned, ornamented.

In every village, bagpipes were playing through the livelong night.

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