claxon

[ klak-suhn ]

noun

1. klaxon.

Word History and Origins

Origin of claxon¹

Naturalized English spelling

Example Sentences

By now we have all “heard delirium in a claxon, / Seen revelation lit on chromium.”

From Los Angeles Times

Around historical mosques there, prayer times are now announced with a grating claxon.

From New York Times

Soon, cell-phone towers in the Wilson County area were triangulating every mobile phone in their range, and the area’s devices simultaneously let out a claxon beep as an emergency alert arrived.

From The New Yorker

The cold open of “My Struggle II” ends with Scully’s face distorting into that of an alien, with an uncanny valley realness that feels like a great big claxon warning you to stop watching.

From Salon

Matriarch Sandra, 63, has a hand full of claxons and a mouth full of songs.

From Newsweek