clarsach

or clair·seach, clar·seach clar·sech, clar·seth

[ klair-sakh, -suhkh, klahr- ]

noun

1. an ancient Irish and Scottish harp.

clarsach

/ ˈklɑrsəx; ˈklɑːsək /

noun

1. the Celtic harp of Scotland and Ireland

Word History and Origins

Origin of clarsach¹

< Scots Gaelic clàrsach (compare Scots clareschaw ) or Irish cláirseach, MIr cláirsech

Word History and Origins

Origin of clarsach¹

C15: clareschaw, from Scottish Gaelic clarsach, Irish Gaelic cláirsach harp

Example Sentences

It is the music of the clarsach, the old Gaelic harp, which ripples over the air and down the ages.

From BBC

Now, says Sophie Rocks, leader of clarsach group The Willow Trio who are rehearsing in a garage studio, it's time for a new tune.

From BBC

Good job there was a bus so Susan Lambert did not have to carry her clarsach - a Gaelic harp - up to Walltown Crags on Hadrian's Wall.

From BBC

The strains of three fiddles, two guitars and a clarsach, or Celtic harp, are ringing round the stone walls of the pub.

From BBC

He declared, 'that I could turn Chro challin or Oran gaoil almost as well as his mother,—white be the place of her soul!' and only regretted, that instead of 'that unhandy thing of a harp, which made trews where trews should not be, I had not the light lady-like Clarsach, that the d——d Hanoverians burnt when they ransacked Glen Eredine.'

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