clarsach
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of clarsach
< Scots Gaelic clàrsach (compare Scots clareschaw ) or Irish cláirseach, MIr cláirsech
Example Sentences
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It is the music of the clarsach, the old Gaelic harp, which ripples over the air and down the ages.
From BBC
Now, says Sophie Rocks, leader of clarsach group The Willow Trio who are rehearsing in a garage studio, it's time for a new tune.
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Good job there was a bus so Susan Lambert did not have to carry her clarsach - a Gaelic harp - up to Walltown Crags on Hadrian's Wall.
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The strains of three fiddles, two guitars and a clarsach, or Celtic harp, are ringing round the stone walls of the pub.
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He declared, 'that I could turn Chro challin or Oran gaoil almost as well as his mother,—white be the place of her soul!' and only regretted, that instead of 'that unhandy thing of a harp, which made trews where trews should not be, I had not the light lady-like Clarsach, that the d——d Hanoverians burnt when they ransacked Glen Eredine.'
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