victrola
IPA: vɪktrˈoʊɫʌ
noun
- Any upright or console model phonograph from the early 1900s, usually with a wooden cabinet body and an interior horn for the projection of sound, that plays 78 rpm records using a steel needle.
- A brand-name model of phonograph and phonograph records manufactured and sold by the Victor Talking Machine Company and later RCA Victor beginning in 1906.
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Examples of "victrola" in Sentences
- The chorus appeared only as voices on a wind-up victrola.
- Search in other blogs: be advised that victrola is between sandwich makers
- Also fascinated to learn that "payola" came from "victrola" which I never knew...
- Insist that you are 300 years old and think the phone is a malfunctioning victrola.
- A Complete Bunch of Pants: A dinosaur victrola listening to Buck Owens skip to main
- It's the old victrola he and Quimby used to listen to and its appearance makes the head burst into copious tears of regret.
- And he remembers well summer evenings spent listening to the victrola with WJB or taking rides in WJB's horseless carriage with his sweetheart.
- "The Little Sparrow," "Je Ne Regrette Rien", the tragic fate of her boxer-lover, do we really need to crank that victrola one more time -- haven't we had enough?
- Well I give them both credit, they both still know how to crank the victrola, But i would have to give the Debate to Joe Biden for the accounting on the credit problems.
- It was not that the white American worker was threatened with starvation, but it was what was, after all, a more important question,—whether or not he should lose his frontroom and victrola and even the dream of a Ford car.
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