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† cornemuse Obs.
Forms: 4, 9 cornemuse, 5 cormyse, cormuse, cornymuse, 6–7 cornamuse, 7 cornimuse, (cornamute), 9 (cornamouse).
[a. F. cornemuse, also dial. cormuse, -meuse, = Pr., Sp., It., med.L. cornamusa, f. Romanic corna, F. corne horn + musa pipe.]
A horn-pipe; an early form of the bagpipe.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 128 That maden lowde menstralcies In cornemuse and shalmyes. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. xxiii. (1495) 213 He herde the symphony and cornemuse. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 200 There is no bagpipe halff so talle, Nor no cormyse, for sothe as I ween, Whan they been ful of wynde at alle. c1440Promp. Parv. 93 Cormuse, pype [1499 cornymuse] cormusa. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Cornamusa, a cornamuse, a hornepipe, fistula. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. iv. 63 Euen from the shrillest Shawme vnto the Cornamute. 1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. Ded. p. ii, Ancient Heardmen heretofore did vse Sometime the high notes of their Cornamuse. 1869F. B. Palliser Brittany 249 The Birnou, Cornemuse or Bagpipe is the national instrument of Western and Southern France. 1882Blackw. Mag. Aug. 173 Long before the cornamouse (father of the bagpipe) sent its execrable Sclavic notes up the Highland straths. |