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  • noun Plural form of phonograph.

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Examples

  • There were small Rajahs, escorts coughing in the veranda, who came to buy curiosities — such as phonographs and mechanical toys.

    Kim 2003

  • There were small Rajahs, escorts coughing in the veranda, who came to buy curiosities -- such as phonographs and mechanical toys.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Speakers, phonographs and amplifiers are as much fixtures in your home as they are creators of frequency, and the mad focus of their designers promises, at the very least, a unique object.

    The Best Luxury Audio Gear John Herrman 2010

  • Add phonographs and movies and he got rich though not as much as Rockefeller by making society rich.

    Andy Kessler: Want to be a Free Radical? Here's How Andy Kessler 2011

  • The process is laborious, requiring the phonographs to be wound and the needle to be changed for each record: no easy task, especially while holding a martini.

    In 'Chap-Hop,' Gentlemen Rappers Bust Rhymes About Tea, Cricket Frances Robinson 2011

  • Both Leiber and Mr. Stoller were in such awe of the American Songbook masters that they viewed their own work as disposable contributions to a world being reshaped by vinyl records, car-radio speakers and portable phonographs.

    The First Wordsmith of Rock 'n' Roll 2011

  • Even the merchandise they sold at their gigs was unusual, and of a piece with their aesthetic: there were White Stripes-branded Holga cameras, and hand-made phonographs called Triple Inchophones designed to play special 3 White Stripes vinyl records.

    The White Stripes: Detroit's rock heroes remembered 2011

  • The time is hard to tell because there are advanced technologies (the thinking Fabrication Machine that can build and create new machines) to old phonographs.

    Movie Review: 9 « Colleen Anderson 2009

  • They inspected the thatched ceilings and from the mouths slurred, “we used to live like this,” and they listened to your phonographs as if they knew the songs, although when you left they played the records backward or with swords etching the grooves for these sounds alone reminded the strangers of their lands across the sea.

    Beneath the Light of an Exploding City Robert Kloss 2011

  • Italian apparel manufacturer Diesel has designed Turntable Bedding collection, featuring prints of turntables or phonographs on the pillows and bed sheets.

    Capsule Turntable Room by Lane Hamley Wells 2009

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