Etymology

muset

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Today it means: A small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse. Full definition →

Middle French mussette ← Old French mussette
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  1. Old French · derived frommussette
  2. Middle French · borrowed frommussette
  3. English todaymuset

From Middle French mussette, from Old French mussette, diminutive of musse, muce (“a hiding place”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.