Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

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.
2. An organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators, found in organs in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.
3. A small oboe without a cap for its reed, which evolved from the chanter or pipe of bagpipes; a piccolo oboe.
4. (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.

Example Sentences

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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