Biniou
noun
a small high-pitched Breton bagpipe
Historical Examples
Lorraine Robert W. Chambers
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 Various
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago Anne Douglas Sedgwick
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