(n.) A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river; as, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were old men and women, too feeble to walk, who were placed in carts; the younger members of the community on foot were carrying their bundles of clothes … while the children, with looks of alarm, walked alongside … A cry of grief went up to heaven, the long plaintive wail, like a funeral coronach, was resumed … the sound re-echoed through the wide valley of Strath in one prolonged note of desolation".
Strathspey
Definition:
(n.) A lively Scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 2005, he has been Liberal Democrat MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.
(2) Part of Gordon in north-east Scotland includes distilleries in the world-famous whisky-producing region of Speyside, as does the fringe of Alexander’s seat of Inverness, Nairn Badenoch and Strathspey.
(3) Party officials remain extremely worried about Danny Alexander’s chances of holding his Highlands seat of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey against the SNP challenger and Highlands council leader Drew Hendry.
(4) Even their ability to defend their “fortress seats” is in doubt as Clegg faces a strong challenge from Labour in Sheffield Hallam and Danny Alexander tries to head off the SNP in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.
(5) Oakeshott said a further poll on voting intentions in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, the Scottish constituency of Danny Alexander, the senior Lib Dem Treasury minister, would be on the ICM website later on Wednesday.
(6) Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Danny Alexander is safe on paper, but after five years as George Osborne’s deputy, he might just provide 2015’s “Portillo moment”.
(7) Amid such dire poll ratings, party strategists acknowledge that Danny Alexander , the chief secretary to the Treasury, is in deep trouble in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey while Clegg trails Labour by three points in his Sheffield Hallam seat, according to a poll by Lord Ashcroft.
(8) One of the safest Lib Dem seats last time was Danny Alexander’s huge highland turf of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, but Ashcroft’s data suggests that the chief secretary to the Treasury is not merely on course to lose, but to go down by a humiliating margin of 29 points, as the SNP surge to 50% of the vote.
(9) • Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury Alexander faces a tough fight to retain his Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey seat.
(10) Alexander, who is MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, told the House of Lords economic committee an independent Scotland would have a similar level of debt to the rest of the UK.
(11) I know that was some time ago but the support and potential is there, and I can’t see any reason why we can’t recreate a ‘Portillo moment’.” DANNY ALEXANDER The chief secretary to the treasury, another high-profile Lib Dem, is also under pressure to hold his Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey seat.
(12) His deputy, Danny Alexander , is under intense pressure from the SNP in his seat of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey, which includes distilleries on the fringe of prime whisky production territories on Speyside.
(13) Alexander, who faces an uphill battle to retain his Commons seat of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, said: “In March 2012, when the economy was still in the very early stages of recovery, we wanted to do a very big increase in the personal allowance to put a lot of money back into folk’s pockets.