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Definition of Amusette

Amusette
Amusette Am`u*sette", n. [F.] A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel.

Meaning of Amusette from wikipedia

- sort of weapon may also be found described as a rampart gun, hackbut or amusette, a name originally given to early medieval hand cannon. Wall pieces were...
- 1748. Saxe invented a handheld light-artillery piece that he called an amusette, which fired a half-pound ball a distance of 4,000 paces at a rate of 100...
- include Les Modes en 1912, a hat collection; the erotic Mascarades et Amusettes and Sports et divertis****ts (published 1923), a collaboration with composer...
- amusable amusamment amusant amusante amusard amusé amuse-gueule amusée amusette amuseur amuseuse anche "pipe, reed" ( < Frk *ankja "bone canal" < Gmc,...
- effective fire of the Hanoverian Jäger and the Loyal Emigrés, supported by an amusette. Though the French captured the bridge at Nijnsel, the Hessians defended...
- Prosodism, Grammar, Paris, Vigot and Debresse, 1934. Ludibria venti. Amusettes, Paris, Debresse, 1935. Clive Thomson, "Dr. Georges Saint-Paul, Man of...
- Grattages Accords et des-Accords Musette ... Et amusette! Vagues et cascades Contrepoids Fantasia et Baroud Amusette, for violin and piano (2006), 4’ Histoire...
- Zig Zag Territoires 2010 – Livre disque pour enfants Mon imagier des amusettes, Tomes 1 and 2, Gallimard 2009 – David Sire, David Sire, Sélénote 2009...