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accordion
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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
Translations:
  • Dutch: accordeon , harmonica
  • French: accordéon
  • German: Akkordeon
  • Italian: fisarmonica
  • Spanish: acordeón
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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