trimphone
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From trim + phone, originally a trademark, with trim explained as Tone Ring Illuminator Model.
Noun
[edit]trimphone (plural trimphones)
- (UK) A luxury telephone of the 1960s with a then-innovative electronic ringer and illuminated dial.
- 1983 April 14, New Scientist, volume 98, number 1353:
- Song thrushes normally have a large song repertoire, and Slater suggests that the trimphone sound has been taken up because it is sufficiently similar to the normal songs to be learned and imitated […]
- 1986, Barry Strickland-Hodge, Barbara Allan, Medical information: a profile, page 54:
- While an acoustic coupler can be used with ordinary telephones, it cannot be used with modern trimphones […]