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Musical box   /mjˈuzɪkəl bɑks/   Listen
Musical box

noun
1.
Produces music by means of pins on a revolving cylinder that strike the tuned teeth of a comb-like metal plate.  Synonym: music box.






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"Musical box" Quotes from Famous Books



... after a while; and then the light began to change, the east came orange, the whole wood began to whirr with singing like a musical box, and there was the ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... aim of Elizabeth's life was to make a new man of Nutty. It was her hope that the quiet life and soothing air of Brookport, with—unless you counted the money-in-the-slot musical box at the store—its absence of the fiercer excitements, might in time pull him together and unscramble his disordered nervous system. She liked to listen of a morning to the sound of Nutty busy in the next room with a broom and a dustpan, for in ...
— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse

... cost her time and trouble to check herself. On this occasion there was no time. She must kiss—and she kissed the page. She did not mind it much; for she had no shyness in her composition; and she knew, besides, that she could not help it. So she only laughed, like a musical box. The poor page fared the worst. For the princess, trying to correct the unfortunate tendency of the kiss, put out her hands to keep off the page; so that, along with the kiss, he received, on the other cheek, a slap with the huge black toad, which she poked right into his eye. ...
— Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know • Various



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