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staccato
musette
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musette

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Definition:
1. a small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone. Unlike a Scottish bagpipe, the air was inflated by pumping a bellows under the arm rather than by breath
2. an air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance. (the music sample referenced below)
3. a lightweight shoulder bag

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painting : by van Dyck (1630)
painting 2: by By Hyacinthe Rigaud (1738)

sound file of the dance music: public domain
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Yossarian put aside the musette bag from which he had begun removing his toilet articles and braced himself suspiciously.

Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.22 (1961)
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He couldn't bear hanging around any more. He just took a musette bag. The guys picked up all the other gear he left and sold it to the French.

Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.598 (1948)
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Reaching down the first workman pulled out of his musette a bottle of good red French wine. They had a long drink.

Ernest Hemingway, "French Speed with Movies on the Job," The Toronto Daily Star, May 16, 1923
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The medallion on her purple musette bag was the seal of the Service Division of the Federal Bureau of Termination, an eagle perched on a turnstile.

Kurt Vonnegut. 2 B R 0 2 B
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