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Definition: Musette |
MusetteNoun1. A small bagpipe formerly popular in France. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "musette" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
Etymology: Musette \Mu*sette"\, noun. [French expression, diminutive of Old French muse.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Fine Arts | A bellows-filled bagpipe instrument. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: MusetteSynonym: shepherd's pipe (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Musette |
| English words defined with "musette": Musar. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Musette" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (haversack, haversacks, kitbag), German (musette). |
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Music |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Musette" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Musette" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "musette": musette pipe. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "musette": musette-bag. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
musette | 39 |
musette bag | 11 |
louis musette vuitton | 6 |
midi musette | 5 |
louis musette tango vuitton | 4 |
midi musette music | 3 |
ballet by lar lubovitch musette storyline | 3 |
bals musette | 2 |
bal musette | 2 |
de musette parole | 2 |
dancer musette | 2 |
drum musette | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "musette"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | melodi baritore, gajde (bagpipe, pipes), çantë e vogël supimuskulaturë (musette-bag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | регистър (calendar, compass, list, range, register, roll), вид малка гайда, пасторала (pastoral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | musette. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | musette. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | musette. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | musette. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γκάιντα που τροφοδοτείται από φυσητήρα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kis oboa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | piva. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | usettemay gaita de foles (bagpipe, hornpipe), dança com gaita-de-foles. (various references) cimpoi (bagpipe, pipe). (various references) волынка (bagpipe, pipes), вещевой мешок (carryall, duffel bag, duffel-bag, kit bag, kit-bag, musette bag, musette-bag), мюзетт. (various references) male francuske gajde, vrsta plesa (cakewalk, farandole, hustle, jitterbug, shuffle, tap dance, tapdance), džak za stvari (musette-bag). (various references) gaita (bagpipe, bagpipes, pipes). (various references) волинка (bagpipe, hornpipe), мюзет, пасторальна мелодія. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "musette": musettes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-m-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: mustee, mutest, suttee, tutees. | |
-2 letters: emeus, meets, metes, mutes, mutts, teems, tutee. | |
-3 letters: emes, emeu, emus, meet, mete, muse, must, mute, muts, mutt, seem, seme, sett, smut, stem, stet, stum, suet, teem, tees, test, tets, tuts. | |
-4 letters: eme, ems, emu, met, mus, mut, see, set, sue, sum, tee, tet, tut, use, uts. | |
-5 letters: em, es. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-m-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: fumettes, musettes. | |
+2 letters: besmutted, maquettes, metestrus, moquettes, mutterers, teetotums, teguments, tumescent, umbrettes. | |
+3 letters: menstruate, sestertium, trumpeters. | |
+4 letters: attunements, detumescent, entrustment, guesstimate, integuments, intumescent, kettledrums, marquisette, menstruated, menstruates, metestruses, outcompetes, restimulate, resubmitted, technetiums, tempestuous, tetramerous, untimeliest. | |
+5 letters: cementitious, curettements, deuterostome, edutainments, entrustments, erythematous, guesstimated, guesstimates, instrumented, marquisettes, multistemmed, readjustment, recruitments, restimulated, restimulates, smuttinesses, subcommittee, subtemperate, telecommutes, temperatures, traducements, ultimateness, unsettlement. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 75 73 65 74 74 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- ..- ... . - - . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01110101 01110011 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M u s e t t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0075 0073 0065 0074 0074 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47878571868671 |
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