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- noun Plural form of
graphophone .
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Examples
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The first objects that met their gaze were the graphophones or phonographs.
The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs
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The merry-go-round, its very music traveling in a circle, clashed its steam-whistlings and organ-wailings against a drum-and-trombone band, while these distinct strata of sound were cut across by an outcropping of graphophones and megaphones.
Fran 1913
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The need was promptly filled by the Salvation Army which supplied a number of graphophones and a piano.
The War Romance of the Salvation Army Grace Livingston Hill 1906
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As he grew older the toys became more complicated, being in the form of gramophones, graphophones, telephones, phonographs, electric lights, electric cars, cuckoo clocks, Swiss watches and indeed all the great inventions of modern times.
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As he grew older the toys became more complicated, being in the form of gramophones, graphophones, telephones, phonographs, electric lights, electric cars, cuckoo clocks, Swiss watches and indeed all the great inventions of modern times.
The Chinese Boy and Girl Isaac Taylor Headland 1900
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This system, by which we are enabled to correspond with our patients as rapidly as we can talk, has been rendered necessary by the growth of our business, which has attained immense proportions, giving rise to so large a correspondence that a dozen physicians cannot possibly conduct it all and give each patient's case careful attention, without the employment of graphophones and all other facilities which modern invention has given us.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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Oats, the Digestible Breakfast Food, "of graphophones and" spring heeled "shoes, tobacco, and naphtha soaps.
The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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Digestible Breakfast Food, "of graphophones and" spring heeled "shoes, tobacco, and naphtha soaps.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Digestible Breakfast Food, "of graphophones and" spring heeled "shoes, tobacco, and naphtha soaps.
The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909
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Canada, as well as in Great Britain from our London branch), graphophones are employed, to which replies are dictated, recording the words of the speaker.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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