ear trumpet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ear trumpet
First recorded in 1770–80
Example Sentences
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Among the other treasures jostling for space inside her living room were a taxidermied two-headed chick, a tchotchke of conjoined twins, an ear trumpet from the eighteen-hundreds, and a ventriloquist’s dummy.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2018
GPs tend to be confident that, within a few months, the middle ear clears, and hearing returns; and, where Beethoven had a primitive ear trumpet, audiologists can now offer sophisticated hearing aids.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2010
"He wants to extend his contract with us and stay with us, so the noise coming out of Russia is very difficult to explain," he said, adjusting his gigantic mahogany ear trumpet.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2010
The method works fairly well in blazer farce and weekend melodrama, but when it comes to hearing the human heartbeat of a situation, Rattigan might as well be hunting uranium with an ear trumpet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Goates lived, but lost most of his hearing and had to tote a huge ear trumpet about with him from then on.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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