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music box
noun
- 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
- 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
Word History and Origins
Origin of music box1
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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