Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small French bagpipe operated with a bellows and having a soft sound.
- n. A soft pastoral air that imitates bagpipe music.
- n. A small canvas or leather bag with a shoulder strap, as one used by soldiers or travelers. Also called musette bag.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small and simple variety of oboe.
- n. A form of bagpipe once very popular in France, having a compass of from ten to thirteen tones.
- n. A quiet pastoral melody, usually with a drone-bass, written in imitation of a bagpipe tune: often introduced as one of the parts of the old-fashioned suite, especially as a contrast to the gavotte. Such melodies were often used as dance-tunes; and thus the term musette was extended to the dance for which they were used.
- n. Same as schalmei, 4.
Wiktionary
- n. music A small bagpipe with a bellows, having a soft sound, and once popular in France.
- n. A dance tune or pastoral air that imitates this instrument.
- n. A small bag or knapsack, with a shoulder strap, used by soldiers, student, tourists, etc., containing food or other things.
- n. A small instrument similar to an oboe or shawm.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.
- n. An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small bagpipe formerly popular in France
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of muse, from muser, to play the musette, muse; see muse. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Lance Armstong’s encounter with a fan’s musette is rumored to have broken his chainstay.”
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“The chief characteristic of the musette was a certain rustic Watteau-like grace.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
“For anyone with a penchant for the traditional accordion based Parisian music known as musette and the unique song style of the French music hall,”
“The bunch pick up their feed bags, known as a "musette".”
“The term "musette" has its origins in an eighteenth-century French bagpipe-like instrument and the rustic dance-hall music and settings in which it became popular.”
“The playing was just as fine as the singing, with standout performances from versatile multi-instrumentalist Tom Zajac on the virtuosic recorder solo in an arrangement of Henry VIII's "Tandernaken" and on the musette, a Renaissance bagpipe, as well as from viol player Mary Springfels, on the melodic line of "I'm going to my naked bed.”
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“Yellows and purples and green-reds, he says, adding that the look of old cars and European architecture made instruments like the musette, a French accordian, seem apt for the movie's scenes of fast-paced street comedy.”
“I love the "ette" theme and hope I'm not too late to ask about the word "musette".”
“Best young rider Timothy Roe (Trek-Livestrong) crashed in the feed zone at mile 37 when he rolled a tire after grabbing a musette bag.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘musette’.
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MUSIC - jazz
Afro, habanera, pentatonic scale, bop, bebop, jazz, cool jazz, pentatonic, malignment, music genre, jazz musician, syncopate and 437 more...
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Flights of Feline Fancy
A list of fictional cats. Also see reesetee's list: Flights of Fancy
If the creature isn't well known, please add a brief description on the Comments page.simba, kimba, Tom, sylvester, puss in boots, grizabella, magical mr mistof..., mcavity, garfield, milo, pink panther, tigger and 122 more...
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Muses
muse, Muses, muses, Muse, amuse, bemuse, amusement, amusement park, bal musette, museumgoer, museology, musette bag and 38 more...
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Accordions, et al
Words or phrases associated with the accordion and its family—free reed aerophones. And, please, wisecracks.
bellows, squeeze, aerophone, bayan, concertina, squeeze box, stomach steinway, windjammer, ship's piano, belly organ, pleated piano, waistline wurlitzer and 25 more...
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cycling terms
peleton, drafting, eschelon, bonk, battaglin, road rash, Tour de France, attack, blocking, breakaway, derailleur, drop and 51 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
metamerism, malady, margin, marauder, maverick, mercury, mirth, mandible, macerate, meteor, manumission, mica and 292 more...
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Pull out the stops
Organ stops, that is.
diapason, clarabella, dulciana, bourdon, reed stop, flue stop, violoncello, suabe flute, waldflute, rackett, pyramidon, querflöte and 106 more...
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Bagpipes
"God's own music," said the guide to me in Edinburgh. At least God was enthusiastic enough to bestow the squealing bag many names.
bagpipes, zampogna, koza, dudy, gaida, surdulina, northumbrian smal..., gaita, chevrette, chiaramedda, gajdy, biniou and 23 more...
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Native Tongue
Words from other languages that have become part of my own.
kagakshi, pespeyason, mskoda, potawatomi, athabaskan, waglula, fu, weemoed, solidarność, congou, darjeeling, alpe d'huez and 55 more...
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the musician
Started off as names of musical pieces and miscellaneous music terms, now broadened to dance and theatre. (May recategorize this to finer details.)
oratorio, berceuse, barcarolle, appoggiatura, acciaccatura, polonaise, mazurka, overture, canto, arabesque, sinfonia, sonata and 44 more...
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Frenchie
Food and phrases
merce beaucoup, je taime, jamais vu, bon soir, acoutremonts, preja vu, deja vu, nom de guerre, poubelle, deshabille, rsvp, voilà and 69 more...
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