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Meanings of musical box in English

Portuguese
caixa de música
Catalan
capsa de música

Produces music by means of pins on a revolving cylinder that strike the tuned teeth of a comb-like metal plate.

        caixa de música
        Usage of musical box in English
        1
        On his chest, just under his chin, is a musical box.
        A bridge to the stars
        2
        The magnetic battery and the large musical box were also believed to be magic.
        Ismailia
        3
        He's standing on the lid of the red musical box.
        A bridge to the stars
        4
        A musical box is as good as that man's playing.
        Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time
        5
        Your chin's worse than the barrel of a musical box.-No ,don'tlift it up.
        The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
        6
        Why, gracious heavens, it must be a regular musical box, that house out there!
        Swann's Way
        7
        Your voice is sweeter than my musical box, and then I am going away to-morrow.
        Infelice
        8
        A brawling musical box was supposed to enliven us.
        The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
        9
        The musical box lay there all the summer.
        In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales
        10
        But he undid the silver paper cautiously, opened a red-leather case, and displayed a musical box.
        Bella Donna: A Novel
        11
        So she only laughed, like a musical box.
        The Light Princess
        12
        But there was no more expression in her performance than there is in that of a musical box.
        Home Lights and Shadows
        13
        I'm as tired of my little reed of a voice as of the tinkle of a musical box.
        The Gray Dawn
        14
        A banjo, a musical box, a zither, a couple of slates and a fan were on the tables.
        Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University...
        15
        Instead, she had a string to pull, and that set off lots of bells, like a musical box.
        Shadows in the twilight
        16
        And in the night the musical box was carried out to sea; that was the end of the matter.
        In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales
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