melodeum
English
Noun
melodeum
- (music) A small keyboard organ.
- 1885, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Penguin Books, page 178
- They had borrowed a melodeum - a sick one; and when everything was ready, a young woman set [sic.] down and worked it, and it was pretty skreeky and colicky, and everybody joined in and sung, and Peter was the only one that had a good thing, according to my notion.
- 1885, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Penguin Books, page 178