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“concertina”
1. A small accordion with button keys consisting of a free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds.
2. Etymology: used since 1837, from concert + the feminine ending -ina.
2. Etymology: used since 1837, from concert + the feminine ending -ina.
A portable musical instrument invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone, 1829.
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cern-, cert-, cer-; cret-, creet-, cre-
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