musette
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From both of the following:[1]
- Late Middle English musette (“type of bagpipe”),[2] 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”),[3] 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.[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mjuːˈzɛt/, /mjʊ-/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /mjuˈzɛt/
- Rhymes: -ɛt
- Hyphenation: mus‧ette
Noun
[edit]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
- (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
- (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.]
- (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.
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[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, U.S.A.
References
[edit]- ^ “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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “† muse, n.2”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021.
Further reading
[edit]musette (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
piccolo oboe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
glossary of cycling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “musette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
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[edit]musette f
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