| 单词 |
musette |
| 释义 |
musette|mjuːˈzɛt|
[a. F. musette, dim. of OF. muse: see muse n.3]
1. A kind of bagpipe.
1390Gower Conf. III. 365 Bot yit herde I no pipe there To make noise in mannes Ere, Bot the Musette I myhte knowe. 1811Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 3), Musars, the name given to certain itinerant musicians who performed on the Musette. 1905Edin. Rev. Apr. 321 The sound of pipes and musettes.
2. A soft pastoral air imitating the sound of the bagpipe; a dance for which this music served.
1811Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 3), Musette, the name of an air generally written in common-time... Dances were formerly invented of a similar cast, and which were also called Musettes. 1879Stainer Music of Bible 119 A piece of music written in the style of bagpipe music came..to be called a musette. 1893Times 21 Dec. 14/2 The lively gavotte, with its cleverly-scored musette.
3. A reed stop on an organ.
1825Danneley Encycl. Mus., Musette, an organ stop made of pewter, of the reed kind and of eight feet; called by the Germans sackpfeife. 1855Hopkins Organ 328 The Madelaine, Paris{ddd}Clavier de Récit Expressif{ddd}Muzette. Ibid. 333 Abbeville{ddd}Pedal, 6 Stops{ddd}Musette. 1888tr. Locher's Explan. Organ Stops 63 Schalmei, a soft reed stop..generally labelled Musette in French organs.
4. A small and simple variety of oboe (Cent. Dict. 1890).
1895Army & Navy Price List 15 Sept. 1659 Musettes{ddd}Oboes [etc.].
5. In full, musette bag. A type of canvas haversack. orig. Mil.
1923E. Hemingway Three Stories 13 The young gentleman had a musette over his shoulder. 1934Webster, Musette bag. 1943[see flight bag (flight n.1 14)]. 1949A. Hayes Girl on Via Flaminia iii. 38 He got up from the bed and went to the table where he had placed the musette bag. He began to unbuckle the straps. 1955J. Thomas No Banners xxiii. 229 Alfred had the Sten gun in a canvas musette tied with string and slung over his shoulder. 1961J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) xiii. 130 Major—de Coverely..packed his musette bag, commandeered a plane and..had himself flown to that city to rent two apartments. 1965Sun 3 Nov. 11/5 The musette, or featherweight knapsack from the Continent, has largely replaced the saddlebag. 1968Amer. Hist. Illustrated July (rear cover), The diary stayed behind in his musette bag. |
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