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mu⋅sette

  [myoo-zet]
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–noun
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. a woodwind instrument similar to but smaller than a shawm.
4. a short musical piece with a drone bass, often forming the middle section of a gavotte.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < MF, equiv. to muse bagpipe (deriv. of muser to play the bagpipe < L mussāre to hum; see muse1 ) + -ette- -ette
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mu·sette   (myōō-zět')   
n.  

    1. A small French bagpipe operated with a bellows and having a soft sound.

    2. 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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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