Definitions for musettes

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musettes mu·sette

Spelling: [myoo-zet]

IPA: /myuˈzɛt/

Musettes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in musettes (eemssttu).

Definitions for musettes

noun

1. Also called musette bag. a small leather or canvas bag with a shoulder strap, used for carrying personal belongings, food, etc., while hiking, marching, or the like.
2. a French bagpipe of the 17th and early 18th centuries, with several chambers and drones, and with the wind supplied by a bellows rather than a blowpipe.
3. a woodwind instrument similar to but smaller than a shawm.
4. a short musical piece with a drone bass, often forming the middle section of a gavotte.

Origin of musettes

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French, equivalent to muse bagpipe (derivative of muser to play the bagpipe Latin mussāre to hum; see muse) + -ette- Examples for musettes

Pellisson was shut up with a Basque who used to play to him on the musette.

One night, waking up, he no longer found musette beside him.

Is her milk as white and as good as the milk of your snowy pet, musette?

In turn musette sketched a charming portrait of her present lover.

Tell me, my child, what colour is your favourite heifer musette?

He was informed of the accident that had befallen musette and Marcel.

Marcel was quarreling with musette about a new bonnet which he had not given her.

When accompanied by a musette, the gavotte is always repeated.

"Ah, but my adventure is no longer such a lively one after all," said musette.

And on his side, Marcel is hard and fast in love with musette.