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What is a musette?

What is a musette? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) Any of various form of small bagpipe, especially with a bellows, having a soft sound, and once popular in France. [from 14th c.]
  2. A dance tune or pastoral air that imitates this instrument. [from 18th c.]
  3. A small instrument similar to an oboe or shawm. [from 19th c.]
  4. (chiefly US) A small bag or knapsack, with a shoulder strap, used by soldiers, students, tourists, etc., containing food or other things. [from 20th c.]
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In fact, the eventual winner took on no food nor musette bag at the Brest control and carried only three water bottles.
The second became the desire to do the same thing for all five oboes from musette to bass.
A musette bag holds food and drinks and gets handed to the Tour riders in the feed zone.
Their music was a mix of jazz, French musette, flamenco, and east European styles.
The piccolo oboe or musette used to be a bagpipe chanter and was very popular at the time of Marie-Antoinette at the French Court in Versailles.
The 250 of us assigned there dropped our packs, duffle bags, rifles, barracks bags and musette bags.

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