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graphophone

[graf-uh-fohn] / ˈgræf əˌfoʊn /
NOUN
phonograph
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But five- and six-piece dance bands were turning out huge piles of graphophone records, and we tried to buy them all.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

A graphophone, with records of Melba, Sembrich, Caruso, and other operatic stars, made the rounds of a menagerie.

From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence

I paused long in meditation on the scene, till aroused from my revery by the blare of a graphophone from a resort across the street.

From Fly Fishing in Wonderland by Klahowya

"Only as I have heard it through the graphophone, in the cabaret below the steamboat landing."

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

While thinking of this, I became aware of the noise of a cheap graphophone carrying a melody with its raucous voice; the sounds came from a cabaret just below the steamboat landing-place.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller


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