Accordion
WordNet
noun
(1) A portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From mid nineteenth-century based on . See also accord.
Noun
- A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.
- 1869, Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad:
- A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked.
- Ambrose Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary:
- Accordion: an instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
- 1869, Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad:
Adjective
- Pleated.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- An accordion underskirt of blue silk moirette.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
Verb
- To fold up, in the manner of an accordion
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