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  • n  a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles

  • By Ethel Merman, 55, klaxon-voiced musicomedienne (Gypsy): Ernest Borgnine, 47, dough-faced TV and screen star (McHale's Navy, Marty), her fourth husband, whom she married June 27 .
  • She sounded her klaxon, stepped briskly into a fog bank at 20 knots.
  • Soon his men were synchronizing cowbells chromatically arranged like a xylophone; a klaxon, a popgun, a saw, a fire-bell, an octave of Flit guns (tuned to the key of E flat), two .
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  • Oskaloosa City Band set to perform on Thursday
    The Oskaloosa City Band will perform tonight at 8 p.m. on the city square. This week’s marches include: Karl King’s “Imperial,” John Philip Sousa’s “El Capitan,” and Henry Fillmore’s “The Klaxon.”
    June 20, 2013 - The Oskaloosa Herald

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