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Definition of French telephone
1. Noun. Telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle.
Terms within: Grip, Handgrip, Handle, Hold
Generic synonyms: Phone, Telephone, Telephone Set
Lexicographical Neighbors of French Telephone
Literary usage of French telephone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Grain Trade in France, 1400-1710 by Abbott Payson Usher (1911)
"Hence when the French telephone administration first established its charges ...
The French telephone authorities began in 1889 by offering the same variety ..."
2. Public Ownership of Telephones on the Continent of Europe by Arthur Norman Holcombe (1911)
"Hence when the French telephone administration first established its charges ...
The French telephone authorities began in 1889 by offering the same variety ..."
3. Transactions by Mining Institute of Scotland (1891)
"Mr A. ERSKINE MUIRHEAD, then exhibited, and gave the following description of
the Ader French telephone :— THE ADER French telephone. ..."
4. Parisby Ken Bernstein by Ken Bernstein (2003)
"Hold on, please The French telephone system, drastically overhauled in recent
years, is now the envy of much of the world. From public telephones on the ..."
5. Being a Narrative of Battery A of the 101st Field Artillery (formerly (1919)
"our central, and it also took time for the French telephone men to trace out ...
The French telephone central, "Cesare", was hidden somewhere deep in its ..."
6. The New World of Science: Its Development During the War by Robert Mearns Yerkes (1920)
"It served to connect the army offices with each other, and with the French
telephone system. American soldier operators had no difficulty in making internal ..."
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