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telephone-bell en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A small bell, installed in a telephone, which rings to announce incoming calls.
    • "Halloa! There's that telephone-bell again." From time to time during and after lunch the high, insistent ring had summoned the Professor. 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

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