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Cuckoo clock

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  1. 1
    A clock that announces the time (hours and quarter hours) by a cuckoo sound, often equipped with a small cuckoo automaton.

    "In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, 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. So long, Holly."

  2. 2
    clock that announces the hours with a sound like the call of the cuckoo wordnet

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