musette

mu·sette  (my-zt)

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.]

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musette [mjuːˈzɛt (French) myzɛt]

n

1. (Music / Instruments) a type of bagpipe with a bellows popular in France during the 17th and 18th centuries

2. (Performing Arts / Dancing) a dance, with a drone bass originally played by a musette

[from Old French, diminutive of muse bagpipe]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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