Definition of Accordeon
Ac*cor"di*on (&?;), n. [See Accord.]
(Mus.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones
are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
ACCORDION, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an
assassin.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- a small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.
A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked. —Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad
an instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. — Ambrose Bierce, Devil's Dictionary
- Pleated.
An accordion underskirt of blue silk moirette. —James Joyce, Ulysses
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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