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strathspeys

strathspeys is the plural of strathspey.

Meaning of strathspey

Noun

strathspey (plural strathspeys)

  1. A Scottish dance with gliding steps, slower than a reel.
  2. A piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance.
    • He muttered an exclamation in Gaelic, strode across the floor, and then, with an air of dogged resolution, as if prepared to see the scene to an end, sate himself down on the oak table and whistled a strathspey.1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst...

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Questions about strathspeys

What is strathspeys the plural of?
Strathspeys is the plural of strathspey.

Words near strathspeys in the dictionary

  1. Strathmore Heights
  2. Strathmore weed
  3. Strathpeffer
  4. straths
  5. strathspey
  6. strathspeys
  7. Strathtay
  8. Strathtulloh
  9. Strathyre
  10. strati
  11. stratic

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