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melodeum

melodeum noun: a small keyboard organ.

Noun

melodeum

  1. A small keyboard organ.
    • They had borrowed a melodeum—a sick one; and when everything was ready, a young woman set^([sic]) down and worked it, and it was pretty skreeky and colicky, and everybody joined in and sung, and Peter was the only one that had a good thing, according to my notion.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXVII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 272

Questions about melodeum

What does melodeum mean?
Melodeum means a small keyboard organ.
What part of speech is melodeum?
Melodeum is a noun.

Words near melodeum in the dictionary

  1. melodeclamation
  2. melodeon
  3. melodeonist
  4. melodeonists
  5. melodeons
  6. melodeum
  7. melodial
  8. melodially
  9. melodic
  10. melodic death metal
  11. melodic dubstep

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