mu·sette (my -z t )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. [Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of muse, from muser, to play the musette, muse; see muse.] |
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]
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]
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| Noun | 1. |  musette - a small bagpipe formerly popular in Francebagpipe - a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone |
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