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klaxon Noun a type of loud horn used on fire engines and ambulances as a warning signal [former trademark]
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Communities do not have to listen to idling trains or hear their klaxons as they pass by. I tried to put the puzzle pieces together--the flight to Cairo, the long trip through Egypt, the longer wait at Rafah crossing--forcing my sluggish mind to work against a back-ground of ambulance sirens, the shouts and klaxons from the fire trucks. Katchadourian approached ornithologists from the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at Cornell University, who were intrigued by her idea of matching the timbre and sequencing of urban Klaxons to the cries of the aviary. |
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klaxon - a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles