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bagpipe (n.)
late 14c., from
bag
(n.) +
pipe
(n.1); originally a favorite instrument in England as well as the Celtic lands, but by 1912 English army officers' slang for it was
agony bags
. Related:
Bagpiper
(early 14c.).
