telegramme

plural telegrammes

1. Dated spelling of telegram.

   I hope you have a good trip, my love. Send me a telegramme to let me know when you arrive in Montreal.

   2016, Tinnean, “Warrick”, in Destiny’s End, [Petersburg, Va.]: JMS Books LLC, →ISBN, page 41

present singular third person telegrammes · participle present telegramming · participle past telegrammed · past telegrammed

1. Dated spelling of telegram.

   I was ashamed I hadn’t thought of letting Mother know John was dead. As for Father, it was unlikely he would have given his solicitor instructions to telegramme her.

   2016, Tinnean, “Warrick”, in Destiny’s End, [Petersburg, Va.]: JMS Books LLC, →ISBN, page 96

   2 more examples

   We urge everyone to telegramme their opposition to the arrest of Francisco Antonio Santos and all others detained, demanding their release and citing the imprisonments as a violation of fundamental political and human rights.

   1974, L.A.W.G. Letter, volumes 2–3, Toronto, Ont.: Latin American Working Group, →ISSN, →OCLC

   So it was that Chartier was forced to telegramme en clair, meaning that his contacts with Vichy were open for all to read and were thus largely confined to run-of-the-mill information.

   2003, Nicholas Atkin, “Agents consulaires or agents provocateurs?”, in The Forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 1940–44, Manchester; New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, chapter 4 (The surveillance of exile: the Vichy consulates), page 158