télégraphe
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From télé- + -graphe, coined by André François Miot de Mélito in 1792 as a replacement for Claude Chappe's tachygraphe (literally “fast writer”), a communication system based on semaphores.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
télégraphe m (plural télégraphes)
Further reading[edit]
- “télégraphe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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