musical box

plural musical boxes

1. entertainmentAny 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.

   There was a battered brass speaking-trumpet, very discoloured, a tambourine, a musical-box, and a number of smaller objects.

   1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

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   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.

   1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 38