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Mossa verda (f)

(with) definite article: ? [sa/la?]
(the) green girl; ➺ remark(s) below
Sac de gemecs

Plana de Vic; Ribes de Freser; Sau; NB¹: In Podnos ignorantly presented as a "Spanish" term; NB²: ➺ Similar terms (According to Tomàs i Cucurull, the use of the adjective "verda" in these terms indicates that in certain regions the colour of the protective / decorative cover (Vestit) was traditionally green).

Sources

Leydi, Roberto: La zampogna in Europa. Como, 1979, p.42.

Tomàs i Cucurull, Jordi: El sac de gemecs [The Catalonian bagpipe]. Llorà-Gironès, 1985, p.99.

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.30 (»Donostia/Tomás).