n. 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.
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n. a brand of gramophone
Word Usage
"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."