Definition of "victrola" []

• Any upright or console model phonograph from the early 1900s, usually with a wooden cabinet body and an interior horn for the projection of sound, that plays 78 rpm records using a steel needle. (noun)

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• "It's the old victrola he and Quimby used to listen to and its appearance makes the head burst into copious tears of regret."
• "It was not that the white American worker was threatened with starvation, but it was what was, after all, a more important question,—whether or not he should lose his frontroom and victrola and even the dream of a Ford car."
• "Insist that you are 300 years old and think the phone is a malfunctioning victrola."