See hello girl in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1893, J[ohn] T. Pettee, “Annual Address: A Review of the Year 1892 by the President”, in Transactions of the Scientific Association, Meriden, Conn., Meriden, Conn.: Press of E. A. Horton & Co., →OCLC, page 17:",
"text": "Surely, we must include the Long-Distance Telephone among the electrical achievements of the year. And if we may add the automatic switch-board, by which the services of the \"hello-girl\" are to be dispensed with; and if the new company, just formed in Chicago, fulfill its promise to give us telephone service at half the present rates, it will afford us an illustration of \"applied science,\" which I am sure we shall be quick to appreciate.",
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"ref": "1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Sandy’s Tale”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 177:",
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"ref": "2001, Ken Follett, chapter 17, in Jackdaws, London: Macmillan, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Dutton, 2002, →ISBN, page 162:",
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"sense": "(informal) female telephone operator — see also telephone girl",
"word": "sentraalisantra"
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"text": "Surely, we must include the Long-Distance Telephone among the electrical achievements of the year. And if we may add the automatic switch-board, by which the services of the \"hello-girl\" are to be dispensed with; and if the new company, just formed in Chicago, fulfill its promise to give us telephone service at half the present rates, it will afford us an illustration of \"applied science,\" which I am sure we shall be quick to appreciate.",
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