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melodeon

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me·lo·de·on  (m-ld-n)
n.
A small harmonium.
[Probably alteration of melodium, from melody.]
melodeon
Noun
1. a small accordion
2. a keyboard instrument like a harmonium [German Melodie melody]


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I was glad to learn that our piano, our parlor organ, and our melodeon were to be the best instruments of the kind that could be had in the market.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
She "carried" the alto by ear, danced without being taught, played the melodeon without knowing the notes.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
They went clothed in steel and equipped with sword and lance and battle-axe, and if they couldn't persuade a person to try a sewing-machine on the installment plan, or a melodeon, or a barbed-wire fence, or a prohibition journal, or any of the other thousand and one things they canvassed for, they removed him and passed on.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
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