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词汇 Victrola
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Definition of Victrola in English:

Victrola

noun vɪkˈtrəʊlə
trademark
  • A kind of gramophone used particularly in the 1920s and 1930s.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Any excuse, dear reader, to stay home and crank up the Victrola.
    • The TVs are black and white with a circular picture tube; the record players have big horns like ancient Victrolas.
    • Won't they vanish just like the vile, lacquered smoke from a burning pile of junked Victrolas?
    • They gathered around the horns of their Victrolas, leaning with their ears cocked like Victor's spokesdog, Nipper.
    • Next to that was a beeswax casting of a phonograph horn from an old Victrola.
    • He brings with him two things that will change the lives of everyone in town forever: a Victrola with recordings of the German opera Der Korb, and a basketball.
    • But even they can't save a body of work that looks as antiquated today as a wind-up Victrola.
    • Soon I was hunting for the Holy Grail: a genuine spring-wound Victrola.
    • The medium can be anything: your own voice, an old Victrola, a radio, a CD player, or an up-to-the-moment MP3 player.
    • As Laura crouches near the Victrola, not looking at her mother, Amanda calls Tom into the living room to congratulate him on his joke.

Origin

Early 20th century: from the name of the Victor Talking Machine Company + -ola (as in pianola).

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