Meaning of musical box | Babel Free
Definitions
Any of various devices that play tunes by means of pins, on a rotating disk or revolving drum, that strike or pluck metal teeth; a music box.
Equivalents
Suomi
soittorasia
Examples
“There was a battered brass speaking-trumpet, very discoloured, a tambourine, a musical-box, and a number⟳ of smaller objects.”
“Beneath the clothes [of the poupard] a squeaker would be concealed, and more elaborate ones would have⟳ a musical-box, the music being played by twirling the doll around.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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