Strathspey

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A Scottish dance, slower than a reel, for two dancers.
  • n. The music for this dance.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A Scottish dance with gliding steps, slower than a reel.
  • n. A piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A lively Scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A Scotch dance, invented early in the eighteenth century, resembling the reel, but slower, and marked by numerous sudden jerks.
  • n. Music for such a dance or in its rhythm, which is duple, moderately rapid, and abounding in the rhythmic or metric figure called the Scotch snap or catch (which see, under Scotch), or its converse.
    • Word Usage
    "It's called "Johnnie Lad" and she delivered it in Scots dialect to the heart-catching original strathspey tempo."
     
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