单词 | piper |
释义 | piper From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Musicpiperpip‧er /ˈpaɪpə $ -ər/ noun [countable]APMsomeone who plays a pipe or the bagpipesExamples from the Corpuspiper• And like a piper, Horton led the two little by little into the world of dance.• There are pipers here going up and down.• The Sergeant was a very good piper and would have gone on all night.• Banquet-goers were treated to a march past of pipers during the reception.• Above the marble mantlepiece in Lennox Berkeley's study hangs and eighteenth-century mirror ornamented with gilded Pan pipers.• Bagpipes are considered family heirlooms and the pipers provide their own.• The man who pays the piper does his best to call the tune.• But not a day goes by, since June, that the piper isn't paid. |
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