n.1 a a kind of small bagpipe with bellows, common in the French court in the 17th-18th c. b a tune imitating the sound of this.
2 a small oboe-like double-reed instrument in 19th-c. France.
3 a popular dance in the courts of Louis XIV and XV.
4 US a small knapsack.
Etymology: ME f. OF, dimin. of muse bagpipe