mirliton

noun4

1. •
   A pear-shaped vegetable or its vine; the chayote.

   • To start your mirliton plant, buy the fruit in a produce-oriented market in spring and plant it in full sunlight in fertile, well-drained soil, leaving the stem half of the fruit out of the ground. — 1988
2. •
   The eunuch flute, a kind of kazoo or membranophone.

   • In form the mirlitons resembled flutes, shawms, or other instruments, and were generally furnished with a parchment membrane. — 1975
3. •
   A tartlet or biscuit garnished with almond, first produced in Rouen around 1800.

   • […] Have moulds prepared as for the mirlitons of Rouen; fill them and finish in the same manner. — 1827
4. •
   An 18th-century hussar hat resembling a slightly conical shako or tall fez.

   • Headwear: This was either the colpack or the mirliton. Regiments No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9 wore the former; 5, 6, 7 and 8 the latter. — 1985