from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- 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.
from The 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.
- n. Same as schalmei, 4.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a small bagpipe formerly popular in France
Lance Armstong’s encounter with a fan’s musette is rumored to have broken his chainstay.
The chief characteristic of the musette was a certain rustic Watteau-like grace.
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."
When it comes to compact bags for men, it's best to go with the original compact bags for men: the map bag and the musette.archivalclothing. com NOT A PURSE: Archival Clothing Plain Musette, $50, store.
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.