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noun
historical, music: a small keyboard reed organ; a rare form related to melodeon
The mourners borrowed a wheezy melodeum to accompany the hymn.
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Etymology
A rare nineteenth-century musical term closely related to melodeon and melodium, names formed with melo- 'music or melody.' Huckleberry Finn supplies the best-known literary example of the spelling melodeum.