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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small French bagpipe operated with a bellows and having a soft sound.
  2. n. A soft pastoral air that imitates bagpipe music.
  3. 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

  1. n. A small and simple variety of oboe.
  2. n. A form of bagpipe once very popular in France, having a compass of from ten to thirteen tones.
  3. 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.
  4. n. Same as schalmei, 4.

Wiktionary

  1. n. music A small bagpipe with a bellows, having a soft sound, and once popular in France.
  2. n. A dance tune or pastoral air that imitates this instrument.
  3. n. A small bag or knapsack, with a shoulder strap, used by soldiers, student, tourists, etc., containing food or other things.
  4. n. A small instrument similar to an oboe or shawm.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.
  2. n. An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a small bagpipe formerly popular in France

Etymologies

  1. 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)

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