cuckoo clock
noun
: a wall or shelf clock that announces the hours by sounds resembling a cuckoo's call
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At each location there will be around five dozen vendors who come from all over Europe as well as Illinois, and this is the place to buy real cuckoo clocks form the Black Forest.
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Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.
—Gregory James Wakeman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
Its centerpiece was a grand, defunct table cuckoo clock whose avian automaton was paralyzed just beyond its little door.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
While some installments tackled the basics like cooking supplies, automobiles, and food, others threw curveballs such as dissecting the inner workings of 3-D commercial signs, false teeth, cuckoo clocks, and more.
—Briana Richert, James Mercadante, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2024
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Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.
—Gregory James Wakeman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
Its centerpiece was a grand, defunct table cuckoo clock whose avian automaton was paralyzed just beyond its little door.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
While some installments tackled the basics like cooking supplies, automobiles, and food, others threw curveballs such as dissecting the inner workings of 3-D commercial signs, false teeth, cuckoo clocks, and more.
—Briana Richert, James Mercadante, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2024
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