单词 | petit bleu |
释义 | petit bleun. Now historical. In France: a telegram, esp. one sent by the pneumatic post in Paris. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > types of telotype1850 cablegram1868 cable-message1877 phonogram1880 cable1883 ticking1888 aerogram1890 T.T.1893 petit bleu1898 Marconigram1902 radio-telegram1902 radiogram1903 wireless1903 news flash1904 teleflash1904 lettergram1908 day letter1910 night letter telegram1910 night telegraph letter1912 radio1915 printergram1932 teletype1933 greeting telegram1937 telemessage1941 overnight telegram1955 telex1957 1898 Atlantic Monthly May 597/2 He then had the petit bleu photographed. 1903 H. James Ambassadors xii. xxxii. 417 He saw the concierge produce, on his approach, a petit bleu delivered since his letters had been sent up. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Touch & Go 7 It may be that coal-owners are like the petit bleu arrangement, a system of vacuum tubes for whooshing Bradburys about from one to the other. 1933 ‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out vi. 44 An agency..sent me a petit bleu. 1999 Jrnl. Contemp. Hist. 34 507 The petit bleu, torn up and obviously never sent, was from Schwarzkoppen to Commandant Walzin-Esterhazy of the French army. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1898 |
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