melodion
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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There was an old-time melodion in one corner and an up-to-date phonograph in another.
From The Trail of Conflict by Loring, Emilie Baker
One of these was a pretty melodion, and the young woman's eyes sparkled when she beheld it.
From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various
Serena's willing fingers laboured patiently over the yellow keys of the reluctant melodion.
From The Ruling Passion; tales of nature and human nature by Van Dyke, Henry
There's your Dad's old chair, and the dresser and the melodion.
From The Rim of the Desert by Anderson, Ada Woodruff
Thus encouraged, I started off again in the melancholy wake of the melodion.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
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