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Definition of Gramophones
1. gramophone [n] - See also: gramophone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gramophones
Literary usage of Gramophones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Along Spain's River of Romance, the Guadalquivir: The Lure of the Real Spain by Ernest Slater (1912)
"... Alcores—Method of agriculture—Irrigation and the water problem —Character of
the wayside—Spanish frogs are worse than gramophones—How the town builders ..."
2. Social Forces in England and America by Herbert George Wells (1914)
"There is, I cannot but suspect, in the mysterious activities that underlie life,
some trade in records for these distinguished gramophones, and it is a ..."
3. An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks by Herbert George Wells (1914)
"There is, I cannot but suspect, in the mysterious activities that underlie life,
some trade in records for these distinguished gramophones, and it is a ..."
4. "Cape Times" Law Reports: A Record of Every Matter Disposed of in the by South Africa Supreme Court (1904)
"An to the gramophones, he sent one. back in July, and the other in October.
The machi nés were both in good working order. Witness was summoned in the ..."
5. Digest of Decisions of the Treasury Department (customs) and of the Board of by United States Dept. of the Treasury (1908)
"Steel points or pins for gramophones or talking machines are not needles in the
tariff sense and are not dutiable under (be provisions of paragraph 165, ..."