| 单词 | musette |
| 释义 | musette /myooh zet"/, n. 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. [1350-1400; ME < MF, equiv. to muse bagpipe (deriv. of muser to play the bagpipe < L mussare to hum; see MUSE1) + -ette- -ETTE] |
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