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Cornemuser (m)

(with) definite article: ? [de?]
plural: Cornemusers [?]; (with) definite article: ? [de?]
(the) piper(s)

any person who plays some kind of bagpipe (&c.)

Loanword from French (➺ France), mentioned in »De rekeningen der Grafelijkheid onder het Henegouwsche Huis« [The accounts of the Counties under the House of Hainaut] (Utrecht, 1875-'78; ➺ Thesoriersrekeningen uit de jaren [Treasury accounts from the years] 1340/41 (Latin), 1343/44).


Sources

Boone, Hubert: De doedelzak. Woord vooraf door J. Van Haver en A. Doppagne… Inleiding door R. De Maeyer… Brussel, 1983, p.17, 92 (note 26: »Verwijs & Verdam).

Web

WNT (Cornemuse: »Rek. d. Gr. 3)
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