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单词 melodeon
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melodeonn.1

Brit. /mᵻˈləʊdɪən/, U.S. /məˈloʊdiən/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: melo- comb. form, Greek ᾠδεῖον.
Etymology: < melo- comb. form + ancient Greek ᾠδεῖον Odeon n.
U.S.
A music hall. Now historical except in the names of specific buildings.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > assembly rooms or halls
redoubt1702
assembly-room1744
drum-room1749
assembly house1762
pantheon1772
casino1789
pleasure dome1816
palace1831
melodeon1840
kursaal1850
winter garden1859
music hallc1883
Met1896
1840 Boston Transcript 1 Jan. 3/1 A grand vocal and instrumental concert will be given by Mr. John Bartlett, at the Melodeon, Washington street, on Saturday evening.
1861 E. Cowell Diary (1934) 283 Hattie James..was burned to death, lately at the Gayities or Melodeon.
1948–9 Northwest Ohio Q. Winter 19 Parker occupied Cleveland's Melodeon again on June 12, 1854, when he delivered ‘The Progress of Mankind’ to a ‘crowded house’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

melodeonn.2

Brit. /mᵻˈləʊdɪən/, U.S. /məˈloʊdiən/
Forms: 1800s melodeen (U.S.), 1800s melojun (U.S.), 1800s– melodeon, 1800s– melodion.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mélodium.
Etymology: < French mélodium melodium n., with ending altered after ancient Greek nouns in -ον (which correspond to classical Latin nouns in -um ); in sense 2 perhaps formed independently as blend of melody n. and accordion n. Compare earlier melodion n.
1. Originally and chiefly U.S. A kind of simple reed organ with a single keyboard, usually powered by pedal-operated bellows. Now chiefly historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > types of organ > [noun] > reed-organ
cottage organ1836
aeoline1840
melodeon1844
melodium1846
harmonium1847
reed organ1851
organ-harmonium1864
American organ1869
harmonicon1876
harmonica1880
organ1880
vocalion1882
squeeze-box1909
melodicon1938
1844 Catholic World Sept. 740 To manipulate the melodeon or parlor organ, of which instruments of torture each house in Jackson Street possessed one, was considered the proper thing for Sunday.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad ii. 26 Our parlor organ and our melodeon were to be the best instruments of the kind.
1920 W. D. Howells Vacation of Kelwyns 228 Perhaps a girl at the melodeon..could be made very effective.
1949 Hobbies Sept. 68/1 They were no doubt the melodeons or portable organs carried round like a suitcase.
1979 B. Tudor Drawn from New Eng. viii. 61/1 After enjoying tea, everyone gathered around the old melodion and sang carols.
1990 Toronto Star (Nexis) 18 Aug. e14 There's an ancient Melodeon, a tiny organ-like instrument, at the front of the church.
2. A kind of small button accordion that plays different notes on the press and the draw, popular for playing folk music.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > other keyboard instruments > [noun] > concertina or accordion
accordion1830
concertina1834
melophone1841
melophonic guitar1842
flutina1859
piano accordion1860
lantum1876
melodeon1880
squeeze-box1909
squiffer1914
bandoneon1925
box1929
organetto1983
1880 (title) The Art of playing the Melodion, or German accordion, without a Master.
1886 Pop. Self-Instructor for Melodeon 4 The Melodeon, or improved German Accordion.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 122/2 Improvements in the construction of the accordion produced the concertina, melodion and melophone.
1938 P. Kavanagh Green Fool xx. 208 Among the wedding-party there had been a melodeon but no melodeon-player. However, one of the boys pulled the music-box in and out and nobody minded the absence of harmony.
1956 People 13 May 11/4 A man was playing the melodeon, the traditional party instrument of the West of Ireland.
1991 Dirty Linen Oct. 60/4 The center of it all is the energetic push and pull of his melodeon, a veritable orchestra in a box.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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