单词 | victrola |
释义 | Victrolan. The proprietary name of a kind of gramophone. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment phonograph1877 gramophone1887 Victrola1905 record player1913 box1916 radio phonograph1922 phono1925 Panatrope1926 radio-gramophone1927 radiogram1929 hi-fi1938 player1948 music centre1956 lo-fi1957 stereogram1958 gram1959 mid-fi1960 stereo1964 unit audio1966 wind-up1975 1905 E. Johnson Let. 9 June in Amer. Speech (1961) XXXVI. 116 The word Victrola is similar to nothing I have ever heard of and seems to me to have a sound suggestive of music, and would in all probability be the best word to use. 1906 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 9 Jan. 644/2 Victor Talking Machine Company... Filed Dec. 1, 1905. Victrola. 1906 Trade Marks Jrnl. 9 May 628 Victrola 279,292. Philosophical instruments, scientific instruments, and apparatus for useful purposes. 1916 J. Webster Dear Enemy 318 The children..had a lot of new records for the victrola. 1937 N. Coward Present Indicative vi. 259 A tall Renaissance chair with a red velvet cushion under which lived an electric victrola. 1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden 374 He bought a Victor victrola..and he went regularly to see what new records had come in. 1979 P. Theroux Old Patagonian Express xvii. 259 I found an old phonograph. It was literally a Victrola, a 1904 Victor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1905 |
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