hand organ
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hand organ
An Americanism dating back to 1790–1800
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Another time he appeared in Chester town square, bishop's gaiters & all, grinding a hand organ to help raise money for the Royal Infirmary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not so many years ago he would prefer a red glass ball to the Kohinoor and a hand organ with a monkey to a piano with Paderewski.
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer
A hand organ in the country! where the little birds never make a discord, or charge us a fee, either!
From Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends by Fanny Fern
He had heard it often enough before, of course, and had paid no more attention to it than if it had been a hand organ on the corner.
From God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Ethel M. Chapman
I'll get up and shut the window, or run off into the back woods, where such a thing as a hand organ was never heard of.
From Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends by Fanny Fern
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