Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Germany, a town-musician whose duty was to play a wind-instrument in the municipal band, especially at festivals and merrymakings. See
townmusician .
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Examples
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The cavalcade of horsemen on their road to the little borough-town were preceded by Niel Blane, the town-piper, mounted on his white galloway, armed with his dirk and broadsword, and bearing a chanter streaming with as many ribbons as would deck out six country belles for a fair or preaching.
Old Mortality 2004
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The cavalcade of horsemen on their road to the little borough-town were preceded by Niel Blane, the town-piper, mounted on his white galloway, armed with his dirk and broadsword, and bearing a chanter streaming with as many ribbons as would deck out six country belles for a fair or preaching.
Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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The cavalcade of horsemen on their road to the little borough-town were preceded by Niel Blane, the town-piper, mounted on his white galloway, armed with his dirk and broadsword, and bearing a chanter streaming with as many ribbons as would deck out six country belles for a fair or preaching.
Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801
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