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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fog-hawrn, fawg- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɒgˌhɔrn, ˈfɔg- |
Définition of foghorn
Origin :- 1858, from fog (n.1) + horn (n.).
- noun warning signal
- Lucky the rain has driven off the fog or the foghorn would keep you awake.
- Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- "Seven shillings," shouted somebody with a voice like a foghorn.
- Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
- The deep note of the Goorkha's foghorn sounded close at hand.
- Extract from : « The Relief of Mafeking » by Filson Young
- He would have a future before him as a foghorn were it only possible to make him call at will!
- Extract from : « Glimpses of Indian Birds » by Douglas Dewar
- "Sit you there, foghorn," FitzHerbert said, as he lowered the unresisting guest to a chair.
- Extract from : « Bulldog Carney » by W. A. Fraser
- She was lost in an ocean of tears, I'd have had to use a foghorn.
- Extract from : « Six One-Act Plays » by Margaret Scott Oliver
- Then again the jarring blast of the foghorn rolled out, and—on Heaven!
- Extract from : « A Veldt Official » by Bertram Mitford
- We hove-to, keeping the foghorn going with its melancholy bray.
- Extract from : « The Log of a Sea-Waif » by Frank T. Bullen
- "Most extraordinary thing," he bellowed in his foghorn tones.
- Extract from : « A Traitor's Wooing » by Headon Hill
- The steam turned a laugh quickly into a roar up the foghorn.
- Extract from : « McClure's Magazine, March, 1896, Vol. VI., No. 4. » by Various
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