musette

musette

mu·sette

M0493100 (myo͞o-zĕt′)n.1. a. A small French bagpipe operated with a bellows and having a soft sound.b. A soft pastoral air that imitates bagpipe music.2. A small canvas or leather bag with a shoulder strap, as one used by soldiers or travelers. Also called musette bag.

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[Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of muse, from muser, to play the musette, muse; see muse.]

musette

(mjuːˈzɛt; French myzɛt) n1. (Instruments) a type of bagpipe with a bellows popular in France during the 17th and 18th centuries2. (Dancing) a dance, with a drone bass originally played by a musette[C14: from Old French, diminutive of muse bagpipe]

mu•sette

(myuˈzɛt)

n. 1. Also called musette′ bag`. a small leather or canvas bag with a shoulder strap. 2. a French bellows–driven bagpipe of the 17th and early 18th centuries, with several chambers and drones. [1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French muse bagpipe]

musette

Cotton bag in which food is handed up to a rider in a road race.

Thesaurus

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musette - a small bagpipe formerly popular in Franceshepherd's pipebagpipe - a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone