"French telephone" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "In the early 20th century, telephones with handsets were not common in the United States. Many American soldiers encountered them in France during World War I.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "French telephones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "French telephone (plural French telephones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Telephony",
          "orig": "en:Telephony",
          "parents": [
            "Electronics",
            "Telecommunications",
            "Technology",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1933, Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate, Journal (part 1, page 281)",
          "text": "An act prohibiting telephone corporations of this Commonwealth from imposing, for the use of hand telephones commonly called 'French telephones,' a charge in excess of fifteen cents per month […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Rudi Voti, The Facts On File Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society, page 1012",
          "text": "Rotary dials also were used on the so-called \"French\" telephones introduced in Europe at first and then the United States in the late 1920s.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A telephone with a handset."
      ],
      "id": "en-French_telephone-en-noun-ZjBS5Upn",
      "links": [
        [
          "telephony",
          "telephony"
        ],
        [
          "telephone",
          "telephone"
        ],
        [
          "handset",
          "handset"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, telephony, dated) A telephone with a handset."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "dated"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "communications",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "telecommunications",
        "telephony"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "French telephone"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "In the early 20th century, telephones with handsets were not common in the United States. Many American soldiers encountered them in France during World War I.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "French telephones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "French telephone (plural French telephones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Telephony"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1933, Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate, Journal (part 1, page 281)",
          "text": "An act prohibiting telephone corporations of this Commonwealth from imposing, for the use of hand telephones commonly called 'French telephones,' a charge in excess of fifteen cents per month […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Rudi Voti, The Facts On File Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society, page 1012",
          "text": "Rotary dials also were used on the so-called \"French\" telephones introduced in Europe at first and then the United States in the late 1920s.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A telephone with a handset."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "telephony",
          "telephony"
        ],
        [
          "telephone",
          "telephone"
        ],
        [
          "handset",
          "handset"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, telephony, dated) A telephone with a handset."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "dated"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "communications",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "telecommunications",
        "telephony"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "French telephone"
}