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clàrsach

clàrsach is the alternative spelling of clarsach.

Meaning of clarsach

Noun

clarsach (plural clarsachs)

  1. A small triangular wire-strung harp of Gaelic origin.
    • And I, beside the lake of swans, / Shall hunt for thee the fallow deer; / And build thy hut and bring thee home / The wild fowl, and the honey-comb; / And berries from the wood provide, / And play my clarshech by thy side.1810, Thomas Campbell, “O’Connor's Child, or, The Flower of Love Lies Bleeding”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell. […], Baltimore, Md.: Printed for Philip H[oulbrooke] Nicklin & Co., […]...
    Synonyms:
    Celtic harp, Gaelic harp

Forms of clàrsach

pluralclàrsachs

Questions about clàrsach

What is clàrsach the alternative spelling of?
Clàrsach is the alternative spelling of clarsach.

Words near clàrsach in the dictionary

  1. Clytie knot
  2. Clytie knots
  3. clyting
  4. clytrine
  5. Clywedog
  6. clàrsach
  7. clàrsachs
  8. Clèves
  9. cléché
  10. cléchée
  11. clôture

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clàrsach (page history and authors); clarsach (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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