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  • noun Plural form of concertina.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concertina.

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Examples

  • I have 2 button accordions, a small piano accordion, 2 english concertinas (a large one and a small one), and an Anglo concertina.

    February 2007 2007

  • Imagine the old Salvation Army bands, with horns and drums and concertinas, calling in the poor of the world to be saved.

    April 2007 2007

  • Others, the timber-haulers and sawyers, delivered a constant supply of seasoned sawn English walnut trunks, stacked carefully in the yard in big concertinas, sticks separating every plank to keep the air flowing.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • If you go to Wikipedia you can find out that "As an adhesive, Rabbit-skin glue is used in the production of the bellows of concertinas."

    "Does the United States really want to be a country that sends horses to slaughter, here or abroad?" Ann Althouse 2009

  • I have 2 button accordions, a small piano accordion, 2 english concertinas (a large one and a small one), and an Anglo concertina.

    Six weird things 2007

  • Others, the timber-haulers and sawyers, delivered a constant supply of seasoned sawn English walnut trunks, stacked carefully in the yard in big concertinas, sticks separating every plank to keep the air flowing.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Imagine the old Salvation Army bands, with horns and drums and concertinas, calling in the poor of the world to be saved.

    National Poetry Month IV 2007

  • Chesterton dashed out of the church, dragging his friend after him, to buy as he said, ginger beer, postal cards, to listen to the concertinas, to ride on a donkey.

    El Distributismo no está Muerto 2008

  • Chesterton dashed out of the church, dragging his friend after him, to buy as he said, ginger beer, postal cards, to listen to the concertinas, to ride on a donkey.

    Distributism Is Not Dead 2008

  • The svelte and unfolkloric dining room (no concertinas here) fills up early with Batalistas stuffing themselves with trademark Batali offal dishes (lamb's tongue), arcane pasta (chestnut ravioli) and luxury birds (duck and squab).

    Vegas's Best Bets 2008

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