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accordion
in
The Book Thief
(Edited)

He was a painter by trade and played the piano accordion.
p. 33.8 *

accordion = a musical instrument held in the hands that has a keyboard and two rigid sides with parallel folds in the middle that can be filled with air and compressed by pushing one of the rigid sides
Some days Papa told her to get back into bed and wait a minute, and he would return with his accordion and play for her.
p. 37.6
The accordion's scratched yet shiny black exterior came back and forth as his arms squeezed the dusty bellows, making it suck in the air and throw it back out.
p. 38.2
In the kitchen on those mornings, Papa made the accordion live.
p. 38.3
The sound of the accordion was, in fact, also the announcement of safety.
p. 38.4
Many evenings, he would walk into the living room (which doubled as the Hubermanns' bedroom), pull the accordion from the old cupboard, and squeeze past in the kitchen to the front door.
p. 40.9
On those evenings, at the end of the street, accordion case in hand, he would turn around, just before Frau Diller's corner shop, and see the figure who had replaced his wife in the window.
p. 41.2
Just that pathetic accordion in those dirt holes every night.
p. 43.6
Or at least, words and a man who taught him the accordion … "First things first," Hans Hubermann said that night.
p. 64.9
When you wake up, I'll play accordion for you.
p. 68.7
We're going to the Amper—upstream, where I used to practice the accordion.
p. 69.8
"Book, sandpaper, pencil," he ordered her, "and accordion!" once she was already gone.
p. 70.3
They sat maybe thirty meters down from it, in the grass, writing the words and reading them aloud, and when darkness was near, Hans pulled out the accordion.
p. 71.1
She didn't see him watching as he played, having no idea that Hans Hubermann's accordion was a story.
p. 71.3
The face was there again—his accordion face.
p. 74.8
It took three hours and six drafts to perfect the letter, telling her mother all about Molching, her papa and his accordion, the strange but true ways of Rudy Steiner, and the exploits of Rosa Hubermann.
p. 95.8
Papa sits with the accordion at his feet.
p. 97.2
For nearly an hour, she remained, spread out under the kitchen table, till Papa came home and played the accordion.
p. 99.9
Thankfully, it turned up, buried behind the accordion in the cupboard.
p. 103.3
That infernal accordion, it was blocking my view!
p. 103.3
QUESTION TWO "Do you still play the accordion?"
p. 173.6
It was a man a year older than himself—a German Jew named Erik Vandenburg—who taught him to play the accordion.
p. 175.6
All that was really left of Erik Vandenburg was a few personal items and the fingerprinted accordion.
p. 176.1
He carried the accordion with him during the entirety of the war.
p. 178.8
It was the accordion that most likely spared him from total ostracism.
p. 183.5
Do you play the accordion, by any chance?
p. 184.4
Do you still play the accordion?
p. 185.3
He still plays that accordion your mother told you about—your father's.
p. 195.3
"You know my accordion?" he said, and there the story began.
p. 202.5
As days turned into weeks, there was now, if nothing else, a beleaguered acceptance of what had transpired—all the result of war, a promise keeper, and one piano accordion.
p. 211.6
That night was also the first time Papa played his accordion at home for months.
p. 219.2
There was an accordion in their ears, a snowman in their eyes, and for Liesel, there was the thought of Max's last words before she left him by the fire.
p. 313.6
His legs gave way and his head hit the accordion case.
p. 314.4
Luckily, he would soon be leaving for the Knoller with his accordion.
p. 323.7
The Complete Duden Dictionary and Thesaurus featuring: champagne and accordions.
p. 351.4

accordions = a musical instrument held in the hands that has a keyboard and two rigid sides with parallel folds in the middle that can be filled with air and compressed by pushing on the rigid ends
CHAMPAGNE AND ACCORDIONS (chapter title)
p. 353.1

accordions = a musical instrument held in the hands that has a keyboard and two rigid sides with parallel folds in the middle that can be filled with air and compressed by pushing one of the rigid sides
Whenever they had a break, to eat or drink, he would play the accordion, and it was this that Liesel remembered best.
p. 355.5
They would eat together, sitting on their cans of paint, and with the last mouthfuls still in the chewing stages, Papa would be wiping his fingers, unbuckling the accordion case.
p. 355.8
It was the same with accordions.
p. 357.7

accordions = a musical instrument held in the hands that has a keyboard and two rigid sides with parallel folds in the middle that can be filled with air and compressed by pushing on the rigid ends
At times, in that basement, she woke up tasting the sound of the accordion in her ears.
p. 358.1

accordion = a musical instrument held in the hands that has a keyboard and two rigid sides with parallel folds in the middle that can be filled with air and compressed by pushing one of the rigid sides
Papa, who'd forgotten everything—even his accordion—rushed back to her and rescued the suitcase from her grip.
p. 373.1
Again, Himmel Street was a trail of people, and again, Papa left his accordion.
p. 380.1
This, it said, is your accordion.
p. 381.6
He no longer played the accordion.
p. 416.8
I played an accordion, Liesel.
p. 420.1
Apparently, while he was still sober, Hans was invited to the stage to play the accordion.
p. 420.7
He sat up and told her about the accordion of the previous night, and Frau Holtzapfel.
p. 423.3
Could you look after my accordion, Liesel?
p. 424.8
It took longer than she expected for her eyes to adjust, and when they did, there was no denying the fact that Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest.
p. 429.1
A PAINTED IMAGE Rosa with Accordion.
p. 429.2

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(1) (accordion as in: an accordion door)
characterized by narrower parallel folds when closed and wider when open -- such as a door or musical instrument with that characteristic

When unqualified, accordion generally refers to a musical instrument.

See the related Google Images to see pictures of the musical instrument, doors, folds, and pleats that have accordion characteristics.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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accordion
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