accordion
English
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Etymology
First attested in 1831. From German Akkordeon, from Akkord (“harmony”), from French accord, from Old French acorder, based on Italian accordare (“to tune”). See also accord.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: ac‧cord‧i‧on
Noun
accordion (plural accordions)
- A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.
- 1869, Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad:
- A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked.
- 1911, Ambrose Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary:
- Accordion: an instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- An accordion underskirt of blue silk moirette.
- (graphical user interface) A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.
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Derived terms
Descendants
- → Irish: acordán
Translations
A small, portable, keyed wind instrument
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See also
Verb
accordion (third-person singular simple present accordions, present participle accordioning, simple past and past participle accordioned)
- (transitive, intransitive) To fold up, in the manner of an accordion
- 2000 December 29, Charles Dickinson, “Qi”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Still in reverse, she goosed the gas and accordioned the running board a fraction of an inch more.
- 2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town[2]:
- It accordioned down and he tugged the shirt around it so that it came free […] .
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