musette

musette; bagpipe; ellipsis of bal musette; haversack (small bag for provisions); nosebag (round sack or bag to feed for a horse)

Inherited from Middle French musette, Old French musette (“type of bagpipe”), from muse (“bagpipe”) + -ette (diminutive suffix). Muse is a deverbal of muser (“to play the bagpipe; (figuratively) to flatter”), perhaps from musel (“muzzle (protruding part of an animal’s head)”) (alluding to a bagpipe player puffing out the cheeks), from Late Latin mūsus (“muzzle”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps expressive of protruding lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgiō (“to bellow, low, moo”), from Prot