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musical box

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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.
Also, especially British, musical box.


Origin:
1765–75
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musical box

noun
produces music by means of pins on a revolving cylinder that strike the tuned teeth of a comb-like metal plate [syn: music box
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