musical box
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English
Noun
musical box (plural musical boxes)
- (music) Any of various devices that play tunes by means of pins, on a rotating disk or revolving drum, that strike or pluck metal teeth; a music box.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- There was a battered brass speaking-trumpet, very discoloured, a tambourine, a musical-box, and a number of smaller objects.
- 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 38:
- Beneath the clothes [of the poupard] a squeaker would be concealed, and more elaborate ones would have a musical-box, the music being played by twirling the doll around.
Translations
music box — see music box