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clairschach

clairschach is the obsolete form 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 clairschach

pluralclairschachs

Origin of clairschach

From Irish cláirseach (“harp”).

Questions about clairschach

What is clairschach the obsolete form of?
Clairschach is the obsolete form of clarsach.

Words near clairschach in the dictionary

  1. Clairmonts
  2. clairolfaction
  3. clairon
  4. clairons
  5. clairscent
  6. clairschach
  7. clairschachs
  8. clairsentience
  9. clairsentient
  10. clairsentients
  11. clairshach

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clairschach (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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