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
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mu•sette /myuˈzɛt/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
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mu•sette
(myo̅o̅ zet′),USA pronunciation n.
- ClothingAlso 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.
- Music and Dancea 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.
- Music and Dancea woodwind instrument similar to but smaller than a shawm.
- Music and Dancea short musical piece with a drone bass, often forming the middle section of a gavotte.
- Latin mussāre to hum; see muse1) + -ette- -ette
- Middle French, equivalent. to muse bagpipe (derivative of muser to play the bagpipe
- Middle English 1350–1400
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