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French telephone

noun

Etymology

In the early 20th century, telephones with handsets were not common in the United States. Many American soldiers encountered them in France during World War I.

Definitions

  1. A telephone with a handset.

    • An act prohibiting telephone corporations of this Commonwealth from imposing, for the use of hand telephones commonly called 'French telephones,' a charge in excess of fifteen cents per month […]
    • Rotary dials also were used on the so-called "French" telephones introduced in Europe at first and then the United States in the late 1920s.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA