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Meaning of French telephone | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A telephone with a handset.

US, dated

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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