cuckoo clock

Noun

Meaning

clock that announces the hours with a sound like the call of the cuckoo

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Examples

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. Ernest Hemingway

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by. Alan Coren

Since Switzerland has nothing else to identify it...and since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by. Alan Coren

Notice the cuckoo clock, a must-have ornament in mid-century USSR households. Source: Internet

German, and specifically Black Forest, cuckoo clock manufacture became an established business in the 19th century. Source: Internet

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