speaking tube

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speaking tube

noun speaking tubes

A tube for conveying speech, especially from one room to another at a distance. […] for the next twenty minutes they were consigned to the general office while Mr Carlyle fumed and displayed his watch ostentatiously. At last a clerk slid off his stool by the speaking-tube and approached them.
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@misc{speaking_tube_2026,
  title = {speaking tube},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/speaking%20tube},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}