strathspey
See also: Strathspey
English
Etymology
After Strathspey, valley of the river Spey.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪ
Noun
strathspey (plural strathspeys)
- A Scottish dance with gliding steps, slower than a reel.
- A piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance.
- 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], Rob Roy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 82790126:
- He muttered an exclamation in Gaelic, strode across the floor, and then, with an air of dogged resolution, as if fixed and prepared to see the scene to an end, sate himself down on the oak table, and whistled a strathspey.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 239:
- Arms are raised, the cheers are deafening, the pipes turn to a strathspey and a whole section of the crowd launches into a mad jig.
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