ear trumpet

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Man with an ear trumpet

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ear trumpet (plural ear trumpets)

  1. A conical device designed to channel sound to the apex, placed in the ear to serve as a hearing aid.
    • 2012, Joseph DiMona, This Was Burlesque:
      The second student is a hard-of-hearing, eighty-year-old man with a long, white beard and a huge ear trumpet.

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