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Piazza Armerina

a town of the great aim being to drive a wide Sicily, in the province of Caltanissetta. salient through the Allied lines and sep- It contains the estates of many nobles and land-holders. It has a cathedral, an old castle, and several schools. It has an extensive trade in corn, oil, fruits, and wine. Pop. about 35,000.

PIBROCH (pe-brok), a series of variations or a sort of fantasia, played on a bagpipe, descriptive of some scene of poetical thought. In Scotland a martial air on the bagpipes. It can only be learned by personal instruction, as the scale of the bagpipe contains sounds unrepresented by any notation. Pibroch is sometimes used figuratively for the bagpipe itself.

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