Crossword-Solution: STRATHSPEY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Strathspey | n. | A lively Scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “STRATHSPEY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A slow Scottish dance | 1 answer |
| SCOTTISH winter sport resort | 1 answer |
| reel-like Scottish dance of moderate tempo | 1 answer |
| SCOTTISH dance | 5 answers |
| SCOTTISH resort | 20 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with STRATHSPEY (5)
The young student was inquisitive about Waverley's campaigns, and the manners of the Highlands; and Edward was obliged to satisfy his curiosity by whistling a pibroch, dancing a strathspey, and singing a Highland song.
The dances were, of course, the Scottish jigs, and reels, and ‘twasome dances’, with a strathspey or hornpipe for interlude; and the want of grace on the part of the performers was amply supplied by truth of ear, vigour and decision of step, and the agility proper to the northern performers.
Suddenly the soutar started off at full speed in a strathspey, which was soon lost in the wail of a Highland psalm-tune, giving place in its turn to 'Sic a wife as Willie had!' And on he went without pause, till Robert dared not stop any longer.
But this was a strange tune to play at a wedding! The soutar half-way to his goal of drunkenness, had begun to repent for the fiftieth time that year, had with his repentance mingled the memory of the bonny leddy ruthlessly tortured to death for his wrong, and had glided from a strathspey into that sorrowful moaning.
Danced a sword-dance, or a strathspey, or some other blamed thing, on the table, and yelled louder than the pipes.