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musette.

musette

7 characters3 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/my.zɛt/
  1. musette

    feminine
  2. bagpipe

    feminine
  3. ellipsis of bal musette

    abbreviation · alt-of · ellipsis · feminine
  4. haversack (small bag for provisions)

    feminine
  5. nosebag (round sack or bag to feed for a horse)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French musette, Old French musette (“type of bagpipe”), from muse (“bagpipe”) + -ette (diminutive suffix). Muse is a deverbal of muser (“to play the bagpipe; (figuratively) to flatter”), perhaps from musel (“muzzle (protruding part of an animal’s head)”) (alluding to a bagpipe player puffing out the cheeks), from Late Latin mūsus (“muzzle”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps expressive of protruding lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgiō (“to bellow, low, moo”), from Proto-Indo-European *mug-, *mūg- (onomatopoeia of the lowing of cattle).

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