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musette

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9
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11
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/mjuːˈzɛt/
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/mjuːˈzɛt/ · /mjʊ-/ · /mjuˈzɛt/

Definition of musette

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (historical)Any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows, which were popular in France in the 17th and early 18th century.
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noun

  1. (historical)Any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows, which were popular in France in the 17th and early 18th century.
  2. (broadly, historical)Any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows, which were popular in France in the 17th and early 18th century.
  3. (historical)An organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators, found in organs in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  4. A small oboe without a cap for its reed, which evolved from the chanter or pipe of bagpipes; a piccolo oboe.
  5. (US)In full musette bag: a small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap, formerly used by soldiers, and now (cycling) chiefly by cyclists to hold food and beverages or other items.
    “The young gentleman had a musette over his shoulder.”
    “I gave them money for platform tickets and had them take my baggage. There was a big rucksack and two musettes.”
    “Yossarian watched Chief White Halfoat pour whiskey carefully into three empty shampoo bottles and store them away in the musette bag he was packing.”

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Etymology

From both of the following: * Late Middle English musette (“type of bagpipe”), from Middle French musette, Old French musette (“type of bagpipe”) (modern French musette), from muse (“bagpipe”) +…

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From both of the following: * Late Middle English musette (“type of bagpipe”), from Middle French musette, Old French musette (“type of bagpipe”) (modern French musette), from muse (“bagpipe”) + -ette (diminutive suffix). Muse is derived from muser (“to play the bagpipe; (figuratively) to flatter”), perhaps from musel (“muzzle (protruding part of an animal’s head)”) (alluding to a bagpipe player puffing out the cheeks), from Late Latin mūsus (“muzzle”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps expressive of protruding lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgiō (“to bellow, low, moo”), from Proto-Indo-European *mug-, *mūg- (onomatopoeia of the lowing of cattle). * Borrowed from French musette in the 18th century. Sense 2 (“small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap”) is due to the resemblance of the original knapsack to the bag of bagpipes.

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