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Definition of Organ-grinder
1. Noun. A street musician who plays a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Organ-grinder
Literary usage of Organ-grinder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"The Home of the Organ-Grinder and his Monkey — Italian Child Slavery — Begging,
or Honest Occupation — Grinding Poverty—An Italian's First View of New York ..."
2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"The Home of the Organ Grinder mitl his Monkey—Italian Child Slavery — Begging,
or Honest Occupation — Grinding Poverty — An Italian's First View of New York ..."
3. Travels in the United States, Etc.: During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"... Gibbons—The enterprising political organ-grinder—First Glimpse of Havana—The
Harbor—The Morro Castle and the Puntal—The Cabanas The City of ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1900)
"A poor organ-grinder cannot afford to build a special organ for himself or consult
his own taste as to the selection of the tunes it is to play. ..."
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