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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A device for casting shadows or silhouettes to produce patterned illumination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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Synonyms: cookie, cuke
Antonyms: none provided
History
Unknown; a connection with American film director George Cukor has been suggested. Compare also dialectal German Kokolores (“nonsense, silly display”). Conceivably related to Latin cucullus (“a hood”).
