Forms: 6 clarschaar, clairschochar, 7 clairshear, clairschocher. [ad. Gael. and Ir. clairseoir ‘harper’; treated as f. CLAIRSHACH + -ER.] A player on the clairschach, a harper.
1507. Sc. Ld. Treas. Acc., in Pitcairn, Crim. Trials, I. 124*. Diverse Menstralis, schawmeris … clarschaaris and piparis. Ibid. (1534), I. 282*. To ane Irland clairschochar.
a. 1615. Ane Brieue Cron. Erlis of Ross (1850), 15. Ane clairshear that playit on ane clersha.
1642. Househ. Bk. C’tess Mar, in Chambers, Dom. Ann. Scot. (1858), II. 119. To ane woman clairshocher.
