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Definition of Klaxons
1. klaxon [n] - See also: klaxon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Klaxons
Literary usage of Klaxons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"... took ferry and landed on the San Francisco side, where their arrival was
heralded with much joyous acclaim with blare of trumpets and shriek of klaxons. ..."
2. The New Era in American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1919)
"This delicate and light-hearted humoresque is sung to an orchestral accompaniment
of race-horns, klaxons, trumpets, thundering motors, the mad tympani of ..."
3. The New Era in American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1919)
"This delicate and light-hearted humoresque is sung to an orchestral accompaniment
of race-horns, klaxons, trumpets, thundering motors, the mad tympani of ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1922)
"Another system of signals with push-button operated klaxons enables the man on
the loading platforms to signal for stopping and starting of loading ..."
5. History of the American Field Service in France, ʻFriends of France", 1914-1917 by James William Davenport Seymour (1920)
"There was not a light to be seen in the town, and no horns or klaxons were supposed
to be used. Shells shot by us over our heads, but so near that the noise ..."
6. Essays and Miscellanies by Joseph Smith Auerbach (1922)
"and horns and klaxons, to wake pedestrians out of the trances into which they
seem often to - pass while crossing thoroughfares. Should you fail to see all ..."
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