# musette
## English
### Etymology

From both of the following:
* Late Middle English musette (“type of bagpipe”), from Middle French musette, Old French musette (“type of bagpipe”) (modern French musette), from muse (“bagpipe”) + -ette (diminutive suffix). Muse is derived from 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).
* Borrowed from French musette in the 18th century.
Sense 2 (“small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap”) is due to the resemblance of the original knapsack to the bag of bagpipes.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mjuːˈzɛt/, /mjʊ-/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /mjuˈzɛt/
* Rhymes: -ɛt
* Hyphenation: mus‧ette

### Noun

musette (plural musettes)
* (music)
** (historical) Any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows, which were popular in France in the 17th and early 18th century. [from 14th c.]
    Synonyms: pastoral oboe, shepherd's pipe
*** (by extension) A pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating such an instrument; also, a dance performed to this music. [from 18th c.]
** (historical) An organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators, found in organs in France in the 17th and 18th centuries. [from 19th c.]
** A small oboe without a cap for its reed, which evolved from the chanter or pipe of bagpipes; a piccolo oboe. [from 19th c.]
    Synonyms: oboe musette, piccoloboe
* (chiefly US, originally military) In full musette bag: a small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap, formerly used by soldiers, and now (cycling) chiefly by cyclists to hold food and beverages or other items. [from 20th c.]
    (cycling): Hyponym: bonk bag
** 1923, [Ernest Hemingway], “Out of Season”, in Three Stories […] & Ten Poems […], [Paris]: [Contact Publishing Company]; printed at Dijon by Maurice Darantière, →OCLC, page 13:The young gentleman had a musette over his shoulder.
** 1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 23, in A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1929, →OCLC, book II, page 156:I gave them money for platform tickets and had them take my baggage. There was a big rucksack and two musettes.
** 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Yo-Yo’s Roomies”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 362:Yossarian watched Chief White Halfoat pour whiskey carefully into three empty shampoo bottles and store them away in the musette bag he was packing.

#### Related terms

* bal musette
* musar

#### Translations
### Notes

* ↑ From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, U.S.A.

### References

* ↑ “musette, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “musette, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* ↑ “mūsette, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* 1 2 “† muse, n.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021.

### Further reading

* musette (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* piccolo oboe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* glossary of cycling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## French
### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /my.zɛt/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

musette f (plural musettes)
* musette
* bagpipe
* Ellipsis of bal musette.
* haversack (small bag for provisions)
    Synonym: havresac
* nosebag (round sack or bag to feed for a horse)

#### Derived terms

* bal musette
* valse musette

### Further reading

* “musette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* muettes

## Italian
### Noun

musette f
* plural of musetta