musette
[ myoo-zet ]
/ myuˈzɛt /
noun
Also called musette bag.
a small leather or canvas bag with a shoulder strap, used for carrying personal belongings, food, etc., while hiking, marching, or the like.
a French bagpipe of the 17th and early 18th centuries, with several chambers and drones, and with the wind supplied by a bellows rather than a blowpipe.
a woodwind instrument similar to but smaller than a shawm.
a short musical piece with a drone bass, often forming the middle section of a gavotte.
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British Dictionary definitions for musette bag (1 of 2)
musette bag
noun
US
an army officer's haversack
British Dictionary definitions for musette bag (2 of 2)
musette
/ (mjuːˈzɛt, French myzɛt) /
noun
a type of bagpipe with a bellows popular in France during the 17th and 18th centuries
a dance, with a drone bass originally played by a musette
Word Origin for musette
C14: from Old French, diminutive of
muse bagpipe