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musette

WordNet
Rosewood musette, in two parts with a brass ring.
Rosewood musette, in two parts with a brass ring.
  1. (n) musette
    a small bagpipe formerly popular in France
Illustrations
Musette made of boxwood, mounted with ivory and with four brass keys. A thumb hole on the top part. Two voting holes in the cup.
Musette made of boxwood, mounted with ivory and with four brass keys. A thumb hole on the top part. Two voting holes in the cup.
Musette of stained boxwood, in two parts and with two ivory rings. There is a hole on the back and three holes in the cup.
Musette of stained boxwood, in two parts and with two ivory rings. There is a hole on the back and three holes in the cup.
Musette made of boxwood, in two parts and with four brass keys. Marked on the lower part: THIBOUVILLE / Frères / IVRY (EURE) / BREVETÉS / SGDG / F. de l'Armée.
Musette made of boxwood, in two parts and with four brass keys. Marked on the lower part: THIBOUVILLE / Frères / IVRY (EURE) / BREVETÉS / SGDG / F. de l'Armée.
Still life with a bagpipe (musette), a mandolin, and a large Chinese pot on the marble top of a trumeau.
Still life with bagpipes
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Musette
    A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.
  2. Musette
    An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) musette
    A small and simple variety of oboe.
  2. (n) musette
    A form of bagpipe once very popular in France, having a compass of from ten to thirteen tones.
  3. (n) musette
    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. Such melodies were often used as dance-tunes; and thus the term musette was extended to the dance for which they were used.
  4. (n) musette
    Same as schalmei, 4.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Musette
    mū-zet′ a small oboe: an old French bagpipe: a simple pastoral melody.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F., dim. of OF. muse,

Usage in the news

The Magnetic Fields (with Gal Musette) at the Sheldon Concert Hall , Wednesday, November 14. kdhx.org

The Magnetic Fields (with Gal Musette) at the Sheldon Concert Hall, Wednesday, November 14. kdhx.org

Musette Murray picks beans at the Alemany Farm in San Francisco. csmonitor.com

Musette How to Behave In Elevators Drape Me In Velvet Hapna 6:16 AM. kfjc.org

New Year's Eve Fireworks Gala Aboard The Musette Yacht. edr.com

Usage in scientific papers

Verhoeven C., Musette M., Extended soliton solutions for the Kaup–Kupershmidt equation, J.
Motions of Curves in the Projective Plane Inducing the Kaup-Kupershmidt Hierarchy

Musette, A simple method to obtain first integrals of dynamical systems, Solitons and chaos (Research Reports in Physics–Nonlinear Dynamics) 125–128, eds. I. A.
The Painlev\'e approach to nonlinear ordinary differential equations

Musette, Link between solitary waves and pro jective Riccati equations, J.
The Painlev\'e approach to nonlinear ordinary differential equations

Musette, A new method to test discrete Painlev´e equations, Phys.
The Painlev\'e approach to nonlinear ordinary differential equations

Usage in literature

He groped in the musette that hung on the foot of the bed. "Three Soldiers" by John Dos Passos

The next scene is at the Cafe Momus, where Musette appears with a wealthy banker. "The Opera" by R.A. Streatfeild

When accompanied by a musette, the gavotte is always repeated. "Critical & Historical Essays" by Edward MacDowell

As they walked along, Musette kept looking at Marcel, and Marcel kept looking at Musette. "Bohemians of the Latin Quarter" by Henry Murger

From the end of the hollow log on which he had been sitting, he produced a canvas musette-bag. "Police Operation" by H. Beam Piper

True, Rodolphe and Marcel are here, and Mimi and Musette. "Nights in London" by Thomas Burke

Its musette is simply captivating. "Contemporary American Composers" by Rupert Hughes

The train screamed outside the station and the permissionaires ran for the platform, their packed musettes bouncing at their hips. "One Man's Initiation--1917" by John Dos Passos

Marcel turns pale, while his friends make fun of the fantastic couple, much to Musette's anger. "The Standard Operaglass" by Charles Annesley

The bellows, he states, borrowed from the organ, were added to the musette about forty or fifty years before he wrote his treatise. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2" by Various