claxon

[klak-suhn]

noun

1. klaxon.

Word History and Origins

Origin of claxon¹

Naturalized English spelling

Example Sentences

By now we have all “heard delirium in a claxon, / Seen revelation lit on chromium.”

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Around historical mosques there, prayer times are now announced with a grating claxon.

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Soon, cell-phone towers in the Wilson County area were triangulating every mobile phone in their range, and the area’s devices simultaneously let out a claxon beep as an emergency alert arrived.

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The cold open of “My Struggle II” ends with Scully’s face distorting into that of an alien, with an uncanny valley realness that feels like a great big claxon warning you to stop watching.

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Matriarch Sandra, 63, has a hand full of claxons and a mouth full of songs.

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