Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A set of shelves, compartments, or drawers for holding music, whether bound or in sheet form.
- noun A roll, folio, or cover for carrying music, especially sheet music. Also called music-roll, music-folio, etc.
- noun A printers' case or tray fitted with partitions for music-types.
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Examples
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								He strapped his music-case on to the carrier of his bicycle. A Murder of Quality Le Carre, John, 1931- 1962 
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								Diana gathered up her songs and slowly dropped them into her music-case, while Baroni stared at her with a puzzled, brooding look in his eyes. The Splendid Folly Margaret Pedler 
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								"When I give my recital you shall have a seat in the front row," Diana promised, as she picked up her gloves and music-case. The Splendid Folly Margaret Pedler 
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								Now and again people pass: a woman of the slums in a dirty apron, her head wrapped in a grey shawl; two girls in waterproofs, trim and alert notwithstanding the inclement weather, one with a music-case under her arm. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919 
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								He was always dressed in the same fashion, and carried a black music-case under his arm. Jeremy Hugh Walpole 1912 
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								At that moment Ulyth, with her music-case, entered the room. For the Sake of the School Angela Brazil 1907 
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								In a moment she had picked up her bouquet of roses and her music-case, and was back in the green drawing-room. The Woman with the Fan Robert Smythe Hichens 1907 
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								But here she shook her head with the air of a sphinx, and, leaving her sentence unfinished, took up her music-case and went to practise. The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life Angela Brazil 1907 
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								Bess, greatly thrilled, turned up next afternoon with her violin and music-case, and when classes were over they walked across to the Abbey. A Popular Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907 
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								At last, after I had endured a meal with them, and was come very near the point of appealing for an interview before her aunt, she went and stood by the music-case, and picking out a tune, sang to it on a high key - "He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay." 
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