: folding or creased or hinged to fold like an accordion
an accordion pleat
an accordion door
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Trim trees and install storm shutters, accordion shutters, and impact glass.—Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025 Classically trained, Yasinski is a master of the bayan, a chromatic button accordion that seemingly requires musicians who play it also be math wizards to keep track of the dizzying number of fingering positions required to perform on it.—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025 Grunwald played accordion as part of an ensemble, weaving in the American jazz tunes that sustained him and mixing in spoken reflections on his life.—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 9 Oct. 2025 With gloomy-yet-gorgeous accordion melodies driven against acoustic guitars and a tololoche, the song showcases the vulnerability of a crumbling relationship through an emotional dialogue between two lovers.—Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for accordion
Word History
Etymology
Noun
borrowed from German Accordion (now Akkordeon), from Accord (now Akkord) "chord" (borrowed from French accord "chord, harmony, accord entry 2") + -ion (as in Melodion, an earlier keyboard instrument, from Melodiemelody + -on, probably the Greek neuter noun ending)
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