Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A grand pianoforte of power and brilliancy sufficient for use in a large hall or with an orchestra.
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Examples
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There were gold-lacquered tables and a curious concert-grand piano, also gold inlaid with mother-of-pearl cupids and flowers.
The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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In the centre stood an Erard, a magnificent concert-grand, open, with music strewn on its polished lid in a confusion of sheets; some piled, some fluttering loose, still others flung to the floor where a chance breeze, or a careless hand, may have scattered them.
The Black Cross Olive M. Briggs
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He was aware of a canopied bed large enough to sleep a family far away to his right, and there was certainly a concert-grand piano between him and the windows, but the dominant note was of austerity.
More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949
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He was aware of a canopied bed large enough to sleep a family far away to his right, and there was certainly a concert-grand piano between him and the windows, but the dominant note was of austerity.
More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949
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Kedzie was not in any mood for parents that night, anyway, but if she had to have parents, she would have chosen an earl and a countess with a Piccadilly accent and a concert-grand manner.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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To one side stood a concert-grand; its case was so unique and so luxurious that even Jane was conscious of its having been made by special order and from a special design.
With the Procession Henry Blake Fuller 1893
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There was a vast shuffling of thousands of feet and a subdued roar of conversation like the noise of a great mill; mingled with these were the purring of distant machinery, the splashing of a temporary fountain and the rhythmic clamour of a brass band, while in the piano exhibit the hired performer was playing a concert-grand with a great flourish.
Vandover and the Brute Frank Norris 1886
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This salon is two stories high, with a gallery around it, and was so large that a billiard-table in one corner seemed too small to be noticed, and the concert-grand piano standing at the other end looked insignificant.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886
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