concertina
noun
a musical instrument resembling an accordion but having buttonlike keys, hexagonal bellows and ends, and a more limited range.
concertinas
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present tense formof concertina (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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For the journey to London, the stand – which concertinas down into a relatively small space – will be put into an aluminium crate that regulates temperature and humidity.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
The museum, opened in October 2011, now has more than 400 accordions, flutinas, concertinas and other related artifacts, ephemera and memorabilia, dating from 1820 to the present day.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2015
Literature, she says, has the potential to give us texts in which “the experiences of the old unfold and collapse back, like concertinas, into narratives that are rarely reducible to age itself.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2015
No restaurateur or chef worth his Himalayan salt will fail to conjure up the image of the tiny, colorful village, with its exotic, weather-hardened inhabitants speaking Gaelic and playing concertinas in a musky, ancient tavern.
From Time ● Aug. 10, 2011
More lanterns, of the shape of cylindrical concertinas, hanging in a row from a slack string, decorated the doorway of what Schomberg called grandiloquently "my concert-hall."
From Victory An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad
