victrola

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A victrola was playing somewhere, and from the bedroom came voices in a sort of off-key barbershop quartet.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 3, 2016

She's looking for an old victrola she can use to accessorize her Brooklyn apartment.

From Time • Feb. 26, 2010

But victrola records were allowed to popularize the "Dance of the Seven Veils"� and in Europe the opera at once took front rank.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was at an institution of learning some months ago where the boys turned on the victrola to dress by.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, for about an hour we lounged on Constantin's balcony in two separate slingback chairs with the victrola playing and the balalaika records stacked between us.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath