musette

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• Received-Pronunciation: /mjuːˈzɛt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /mjʊ-/
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• General-American: /mjuˈzɛt/
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• rhymes with -ɛt
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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.

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Dutch: musette — any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows
• Finnish: musetti — any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows
• French: musette — any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows
• German: Musette — any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows
• Polish: musette — any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows
• Dutch: musette — pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating this instrument; dance performed to this music
• Finnish: musetti — pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating this instrument; dance performed to this music
• French: musette — pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating this instrument; dance performed to this music
• German: Musette — pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating this instrument; dance performed to this music
• Polish: musette — pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating this instrument; dance performed to this music
• Finnish: musetti — small oboe without a cap for its reed
• French: musette — small oboe without a cap for its reed
• German: Musette — small oboe without a cap for its reed
• Norwegian Bokmål: musette — small oboe without a cap for its reed
• Polish: obojczyk musette — small oboe without a cap for its reed
• Finnish: musetti — organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators
• French: musette — organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators
• Polish: organy musette — organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators
• Dutch: musette — small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap
• Finnish: olkapussi — small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap
• Finnish: olkapussukka — small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap
• French: musette — small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap
• Hungarian: tarsoly — small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap
• Polish: torebka z paskiem — small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap
• Spanish: macuto — small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap
• Spanish: zurrón — small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap
• Spanish: tanate — small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap
• Spanish: morral — small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap
• Spanish: chuspa — small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap
• Spanish: zorrón — small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap