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noun, masculine

télégraphe

/te.le.ɡʁaf/

noun, masculine/te.le.ɡʁaf/plural: télégraphes

telegraph

From télé- + -graphe, coined by André François Miot de Mélito in 1792 as a replacement for Claude Chappe's tachygraphe (literally “fast writer”), a communication system based on semaphores.