claxon
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of claxon
Naturalized English spelling
Example Sentences
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By now we have all “heard delirium in a claxon, / Seen revelation lit on chromium.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
I had a kind of Austin Powers claxon: “Wanh-anhh! We can’t do that, because he’d run the gag dry.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
But now their sound was an enervating jangle, a burglar-alarm claxon.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2012
An army deuce-and-a-half rolled by, claxon blaring, three dozen faces peering from the back and five more Vietnamese sitting on the hood.
From Time Magazine Archive
Someone stood in the doorway blowing a shrill whistle, then there was again the clamour of a claxon near at hand.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by Dos Passos, John
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