Hypertext Webster Gateway: "accordion"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Accordion \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
accordion
adj : arranged in parallel folds; "plicate leaves" [syn: {plicate}]
n : a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are
made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the
player [syn: {piano accordion}, {squeeze box}]
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