📚 noun • entry_id 43081
barrel organ
Meanings (ES + gloss)
organillo • organito
A musical instrument in which air from a bellows is admitted to a set of pipes by means of pins inserted into a revolving barrel (typically turned by a crank), originating in France.
Poor Mrs. Cranch was bulky, and, breathing asthmatically, had the additional motive for making her remarks unexceptionable and giving them a general bearing, that even her whispers…
Ragged children played in the road, and an old barrel-organ was grinding out a vulgar tune.
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