Meaning of musette | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   historical
2. A pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating such an instrument; also, a dance performed to this music.
   broadly, historical
3. An organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators, found in organs in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.
   historical
4. A small oboe without a cap for its reed, which evolved from the chanter or pipe of bagpipes; a piccolo oboe.
5. 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.
   US

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Examples

“The young gentleman had a musette over his shoulder.”

“I gave them money for platform tickets and had them take my baggage. There was a big rucksack and two musettes.”

“Yossarian watched Chief White Halfoat pour whiskey carefully into three empty shampoo bottles and store them away in the musette bag he was packing.”

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