musette

From Middle French musette, later reborrowed from French musette.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mjuːˈzɛt/

musette (plural musettes)

1. (music, now historical) Any of various form of small bagpipe, especially with a bellows, having a soft sound, and once popular in France. [from 14th c.]
2. A dance tune or pastoral air that imitates this instrument. [from 18th c.]
3. A small instrument similar to an oboe or shawm. [from 19th c.]
4. (chiefly US) A small bag or knapsack, with a shoulder strap, used by soldiers, cyclists, etc., containing food or other things. [from 20th c.]
   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, page 143:

     I gave them money for platform tickets and had them take my baggage. There was a big rucksack and two musettes.

(small bagpipe):

• pastoral oboe
• shepherd's pipe

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musette f (plural musettes)

1. musette
2. bagpipe

• “musette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• muettes

musette f

1. plural of musetta