bal musette
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
bal musette (plural bals musettes)
- A French dance hall with an accordion player.
- 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society, published 2008, page 45:
- The dancing-club was a bal musette in the Rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From earlier bal à la musette (“ball in the style of musette”), from the name of a wind instrument and type of dance.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bal musette m (plural bals musettes)
- bal musette
- Synonyms: bastringue, guinguette, musette
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- bal musette on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr