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musette en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /mjʊ-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /mjuˈzɛt/ (General-American)
  • /mjuːˈzɛt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio

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”) + -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.

Meanings

  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. ▸ A pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating such an instrument; also, a dance performed to this music.
  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.
    • I gave them money for platform tickets and had them take my baggage. There was a big rucksack and two musettes. 1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 23, in A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1929, →OCLC, book II, page 156:
    • Yossarian watched Chief White Halfoat pour whiskey carefully into three empty shampoo bottles and store them away in the musette bag he was packing. 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Yo-Yo’s Roomies”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 362:
    • The young gentleman had a musette over his shoulder. 1923, [Ernest Hemingway], “Out of Season”, in Three Stories […] & Ten Poems […], [Paris]: [Contact Publishing Company]; printed at Dijon by Maurice Darantière, →OCLC, page 13:

Forms

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Hyponyms

bonk bag

Relateds

bal musette · musar

Synonyms

oboe musette · pastoral oboe · pastoral oboe · shepherd's pipe · shepherd's pipe · piccoloboe

Translations (30)

de Musette (small oboe without a cap for its reed) · fi musetti (pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating this instrument; dance performed to this music) · es macuto (small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap) · fr musette (organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators) · fr musette (small oboe without a cap for its reed) · pl torebka z paskiem (small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap) · pl musette (pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating this instrument; dance performed to this music) · de Musette (pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating this instrument; dance performed to this music) · fi olkapussi (small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap) · nl musette (small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap) · nl musette (any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows) · fr musette (pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating this instrument; dance performed to this music) · nl musette (pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating this instrument; dance performed to this music) · es morral (small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap) · es zurrón (small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap) · fi olkapussukka (small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap) · es chuspa (small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap) · fi musetti (small oboe without a cap for its reed) · hu tarsoly (small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap) · pl organy musette (organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators) · fi musetti (any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows) · fr musette (small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap) · pl obojczyk musette (small oboe without a cap for its reed) · nb musette (small oboe without a cap for its reed) · fr musette (any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows) · es zorrón (small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap) · pl musette (any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows) · fi musetti (organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators) · de Musette (any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows) · es tanate (small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap)

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