bal musette

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French bal musette

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bal musette (plural bals musettes)

  1. 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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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.

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Noun[edit]

bal musette m (plural bals musettes)

  1. bal musette
    Synonyms: bastringue, guinguette, musette

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