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cottage piano

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noun

  1. a small upright piano

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There were flowers on the table and on the little cottage piano; and by the side of the last was a violin-case.

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She had also her old cottage piano, with a front of fluted red silk, upon which she sometimes played.

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Weeks flew by, and one evening while the kindly old soldier sat alone with his wife in the drawing-room, both very still, because they were reading and the children were away in the woods, lo! the cottage piano in the corner suddenly began to play.

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Cott′ager, one who dwells in a cottage, esp. of labourers.—Cottage allotments, pieces of land allotted to cottagers to be cultivated as gardens; Cottage piano, a small upright piano.

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In the evening of Marynia's birthday, Ladislaus and Miss Anney for a time found themselves at some distance from the rest of the company, at a cottage piano, decorated with flowers.

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