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noun 
  1. 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 that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked. "w:Mark Twain, Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad
    • an musical instrument, instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. " w:Ambrose Bierce, Ambrose Bierce, Devil"s Dictionary
adjective 
  1. pleat, Pleated.
An underskirt of blue silk moirette. "James Joyce, Ulysses
Etymology: From mid nineteenth-century German Akkordion based on Italian accordare (to tune). <small>SEE</small> accord.

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