MUSIC BOX


Meaning of MUSIC BOX in English

a box or case containing an apparatus for producing music mechanically, as by means of a comblike steel plate with tuned teeth sounded by small pegs or pins in the surface of a revolving cylinder or disk.

Also, esp. Brit., musical box .

[ 1765-75 ]

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