Word of the Day:
clarsach
What It Means
A small triangular wire-strung harp of Gaelic origin.
Clarsach in Context
“[S]he sate down at a little distance upon the bench on which Allan M‘Aulay was placed, and tuning her clairshach, a small harp, about thirty inches in height, she accompanied it with her voice.”
Did You Know?
Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic clàrsach (“harp”) by the 1810s, possibly from clàr (“board, plank; table”). The word is cognate with Irish cláirseach (“harp”).
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