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- French · borrowed frommélophone
- English todaymelophone
Probably from French mélophone, from mélo- + -phone. By surface analysis, melo- + -phone.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
melophone
Today it means: Any of various kinds of accordion, especially a handheld free reed instrument of 19th-century France. Full definition →
French mélophone