Accordion

/əˈkɔːrdiən/ noun

A musical instrument with a keyboard and bellows that you push and pull to force air through reeds and make sound.

From German *Akkordeon*, based on *Akkord* “chord, musical harmony,” plus a suffix. It spread through Europe in the 19th century.

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