Musette vs Amusette - What's the difference?
musette | amusette |
(musici, now, historical) Any of various form of small bagpipe, especially with a bellows, having a soft sound, and once popular in France.
A dance tune or pastoral air that imitates this instrument.
A small instrument similar to an oboe or shawm.
(chiefly, US) A small bag or knapsack, with a shoulder strap, used by soldiers, student, tourists, etc., containing food or other things.
* 1929 , (Ernest Hemingway), A Farewell to Arms , Folio Society 2008, page 143:
As nouns the difference between musette and amusette
is that musette is any of various form of small bagpipe, especially with a bellows, having a soft sound, and once popular in France while amusette is a light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel.musette
English
(wikipedia musette)Noun
(en noun)- I gave them money for platform tickets and had them take my baggage. There was a big rucksack and two musettes .