/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 muse bagpipe (deriv. of muser to play the bagpipe mussare to hum; see MUSE 1 ) + -ette- -ETTE ]