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Grandfather clock   /grˈændfˌɑðər klɑk/   Listen
Grandfather clock

noun
1.
A pendulum clock enclosed in a tall narrow case.  Synonym: longcase clock.






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"Grandfather clock" Quotes from Famous Books



... life-time one travelled through aeons. The great chasm of memory from her childhood in the intimate country surroundings of Cossethay and the Marsh Farm—she remembered the servant Tilly, who used to give her bread and butter sprinkled with brown sugar, in the old living-room where the grandfather clock had two pink roses in a basket painted above the figures on the face—and now when she was travelling into the unknown with Birkin, an utter stranger—was so great, that it seemed she had no identity, that the child she had been, playing in ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence



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