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Scottish reel   /skˈɑtɪʃ ril/   Listen
Scottish reel

noun
1.
A lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps.  Synonym: reel.






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"Scottish reel" Quotes from Famous Books



... related by the good Father is not quite so ghastly. He tells us of one "M. Finlaison of burlesque memory," who, when all provisions were out, took his fiddle and, calling the men of his fort before the door of his empty larder, played to them a Scottish reel. That was their dinner for the day,—instead of meat they had sound. The narrator adds, "In America they would have lynched the too-jovial Scotchman. In the Northwest the good half-breeds laughed and applauded ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron



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