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music box

noun

  1. a box or case containing an apparatus for producing music mechanically, as by means of a comblike steel plate with tuned teeth sounded by small pegs or pins in the surface of a revolving cylinder or disk.


music box

noun

  1. a mechanical instrument that plays tunes by means of pins on a revolving cylinder striking the tuned teeth of a comblike metal plate, contained in a box
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of music box1

First recorded in 1765–75
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Example Sentences

The painting is of a human heart set inside a wind-up music box that has a metal rod poking out of the pulmonary artery.

Music Box: An ornate music box that figures prominently into the Dark Shadows mythos.

“I made a story in my mind where the captain of the toy solders is in love with the music-box ballerina,” she says.

But Mill might have said the same thing about the price of a music box, provided it was properly patented, anywhere at all.

What do you want to do with the fiddle—think it's a music box?

And it must have been; every morning for eighty-nine days the gaudy music box faithfully played the tune over and over again.

For about a minute the music-box plays intermittent airs behind the curtain, as if it was turned by some hand.

The music-box, which has one of these handles, plays at the same time behind the curtain in perfect synchronism.

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