cottage piano

British  

noun

1. a small upright piano

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cottage piano

The drawing-room at the Hotel de la Fleur was a small room, with a cottage piano, and a suite of mahogany furniture, covered in stamped velvet, neatly arranged around the walls.

From Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

A cottage piano lurched forward drunkenly on three legs, with the keyboard ripped open, the treble notes on the ground, the bass incongruously in the air.

From The Rough Road by Locke, William John

These little tea-parties became quite notorious, and there was a question of a cottage piano, which was finally abandoned in favour of a banjo.

From Roden's Corner by Merriman, Henry Seton

I remember that I saw something like a dark shadow move very quickly and disappear in front of a cottage piano.

From Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by O'Donnell, Elliott

The plated ware Mademoiselle left behind her was too cumbrous, probably for which reason, no doubt, she also left the fire irons, the chimney-glasses, and the rosewood cottage piano.

From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace