[mju:'z?t]
¦ noun
1. a kind of small bagpipe played with bellows, popular in France in the 17th-18th centuries and in later folk music.
a tune or piece of music imitating the sound of the musette, typically with a drone.
2. a small, simple variety of oboe, used chiefly in 19th-century France.
3. (also musette bag) US a small knapsack.
Origin
ME: from OFr., dimin. of muse 'bagpipe'.