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单词 musette
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musette

English

WOTD – 19 July 2022

Etymology

A musette de cour (sense 1.1).[n 1]
A musette (sense 1.2) or piccolo oboe is a type of small oboe which evolved from the chanter or pipe of bagpipes.
Norwegian professional cyclist Thor Hushovd with a musette (sense 2) around his neck during the 2011 Tour de France.

From both of the following:[1]

  • Late Middle English musette (“type of bagpipe”),[2] from Middle French musette, Old French musette (“type of bagpipe”) (modern French musette), from muse (“bagpipe”) + -ette (diminutive suffix). Muse is derived from muser (“to play the bagpipe; (figuratively) to flatter”),[3] 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).
  • Borrowed from French musette in the 18th century.

Sense 2 (“small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap”) is due to the resemblance of the original knapsack to the bag of bagpipes.[3]

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mjuːˈzɛt/, /mjʊ-/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /mjuˈzɛt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛt
  • Hyphenation: mus‧ette

Noun

musette (plural musettes)

  1. (music)
    1. (historical) 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. [from 14th c.]
      Synonyms: pastoral oboe, shepherd's pipe
      1. (by extension) A pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating such an instrument; also, a dance performed to this music. [from 18th c.]
    2. (historical) An organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators, found in organs in France in the 17th and 18th centuries. [from 19th c.]
    3. A small oboe without a cap for its reed, which evolved from the chanter or pipe of bagpipes; a piccolo oboe. [from 19th c.]
      Synonyms: oboe musette, piccoloboe
  2. (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. [from 20th c.]
    (cycling): Hyponym: bonk bag
    • 1923, [Ernest Hemingway], “Out of Season”, in Three Stories […] & Ten Poems […], [Paris: Contact Publishing Company]; printed at Dijon by Maurice Darantière, OCLC 1005542095, page 13:
      The young gentleman had a musette over his shoulder.
    • 1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 23, in A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1929, OCLC 465739873, book II, page 156:
      I gave them money for platform tickets and had them take my baggage. There was a big rucksack and two musettes.
    • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Yo-Yo’s Roomies”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, OCLC 1023879857, page 362:
      Yossarian watched Chief White Halfoat pour whiskey carefully into three empty shampoo bottles and store them away in the musette bag he was packing.
  • bal musette
  • musar

Translations

Notes

  1. From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, U.S.A.

References

  1. “musette, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “musette, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. “mūsette, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  3. “† muse, n.2”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021.

Further reading

  • musette (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • piccolo oboe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • glossary of cycling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /my.zɛt/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

musette f (plural musettes)

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

Derived terms

  • bal musette
  • valse musette

Further reading

  • “musette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • muettes

Italian

Noun

musette f

  1. plural of musetta
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