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bagpipes

(bægpaɪps)
language note: The form bagpipe is used as a modifier.
countable noun [usually plural]
Bagpipes are a musical instrument that is traditionally played in Scotland. You play the bagpipesby blowing air through a pipe into a bag, and then squeezing the bag to force the air out through other pipes.

bagpipes in British English

(ˈbæɡˌpaɪps)
plural noun
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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bagpipes

Such an enthusiast, it turns out, that he plays the bagpipes.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
You want to be in good health to play the bagpipes.
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat (1889)
Her uncle played the bagpipes as she walked in.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He was talking about how a soldier was shot but kept walking up and down playing the bagpipes.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I remember him walking round and round the garden playing the bagpipes.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I play the bagpipes as a hobby.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I have been playing the bagpipes from a really young age.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A bloke in a kilt playing the bagpipes.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I can still hear the bagpipes in my ears.
The Sun (2014)
I met a piper in the high street playing the bagpipes and arranged for him to come to my garden and entertain my friends.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The city has a Celtic past like parts of Britain and bagpipes are played locally.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The 450 prisoners also tucked into ethnic banquets and watched Scottish guards play bagpipes.
The Sun (2011)
He has learnt to play the bagpipes and before Beijing taught himself Mandarin.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
You don't have to walk far in Dunedin to come across a shop selling bagpipes or hiring kilts.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
They invaded from the south so unquestionably this meant the bagpipes were heard in England before they arrived in Scotland.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)

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bagpipes

British English: bagpipes /ˈbæɡˌpaɪps/ NOUN
Bagpipes are a musical instrument that are played by blowing air through a pipe into a bag, and then squeezing the bag to force the air out through other pipes.
  • American English: bagpipes
  • Arabic: مِزْاميرُ القِرْبَ
  • Brazilian Portuguese: gaita de foles
  • Chinese: 风笛
  • Croatian: gajde
  • Czech: dudy
  • Danish: sækkepibe
  • Dutch: doedelzak
  • European Spanish: gaita
  • Finnish: säkkipilli
  • French: cornemuse
  • German: Dudelsack
  • Greek: γκάιντα
  • Italian: cornamuse
  • Japanese: バグパイプ
  • Korean: 백파이프
  • Norwegian: sekkepipe
  • Polish: dudy
  • European Portuguese: gaita de foles
  • Romanian: cimpoi
  • Russian: волынка
  • Latin American Spanish: gaita
  • Swedish: säckpipa
  • Thai: ปี่สก๊อต
  • Turkish: gayda
  • Ukrainian: волинка
  • Vietnamese: kèn túi

Chinese translation of 'bagpipes'

bagpipes

(ˈbæɡpaɪps)

n pl

  1. 风(風)笛 (fēngdí)
bagpipes，风笛，是一种总能让人联想起苏格兰的古老乐器。演奏者，即 pipers，通过一根管子把气吹到一个袋子里，然后挤压袋子把气送进其他管子，使发出嗡嗡的响声。风笛能制造出浓郁的婚礼和官方庆典活动的气氛。在这些场合，风笛乐手们盛装打扮，身着代表苏格兰不同家族图案的传统褶皱短裙。现场观看这样的风笛军乐队演奏蔚为壮观。
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