musette

Meaning

1. musette
2. bagpipe
3. Ellipsis of bal musette.
4. haversack (small bag for provisions)
5. nosebag (round sack or bag to feed for a horse)

Concepts

bagpipe

haversack

bag

musette

pipe

shepherd’s pipe

feedbag

bagpipes

haversacks

Synonyms

cartable

sac

sacoche

cabas

cornemuse

filet

musette-mangeoire

comuse

Pronounced as (IPA)

/my.zɛt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French: musette

Inherited from Old French: musette

Inherited from Latin: mūgiō

In summary

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).