melodeon
Americannoun
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a small reed organ.
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a kind of accordion.
noun
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a type of small accordion
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a type of keyboard instrument similar to the harmonium
Etymology
Origin of melodeon
1840–50, < German, formed on Melodie melody; accordion
Example Sentences
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Ishibashi is credited with piano, electronics, flute, synth, melodeon and vibraphone, Marty Holoubek played bass, while O’Rourke handled guitar and pedal steel duties.
From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2022
And it’s only with the six-speed that you can evoke all from the Aston’s petro-powered melodeon, from the tympanic idle to the wild happiness at 7,000 rpm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2015
It started in about 1948, when melodeon melodies drifted across the road from the Hornville Tavern into her childhood home.
From Washington Times • Dec. 31, 2014
Benjamin Briggs was untouched, right down to the sewing machine and parlor melodeon belonging to his wife and infant daughter; the child's ghostly indentation remained visible on a bed.
From Slate • Dec. 6, 2011
He took the candle in his left hand, and with the melodeon still in his right he went down to the chamber beneath.
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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