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Etymology[]
From mid nineteenth-century German Akkordion based on Italian accordare (“‘to tune’”). See also accord.
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Noun[]
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Accordion ({{{1}}})
- 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:
Synonyms[]
- squeezebox
Derived terms[]
- accordionist
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See also[]
- bandoneon
- concertina
Adjective[]
Accordion (not comparable)
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- Pleated.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- An accordion underskirt of blue silk moirette.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
Verb[]
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to Accordion (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)
- (transitive, intransitive) To fold up, in the manner of an accordion
- 2000 December 29, Charles Dickinson, “Qi”, Chicago Reader:
- Still in reverse, she goosed the gas and accordioned the running board a fraction of an inch more.
- 2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town[1]:
- It accordioned down and he tugged the shirt around it so that it came freeTemplate:....
- 2000 December 29, Charles Dickinson, “Qi”, Chicago Reader:
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