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Ear trumpet   /ɪr trˈəmpət/   Listen
Ear trumpet

noun
1.
A conical acoustic device formerly used to direct sound to the ear of a hearing-impaired person.  Synonym: hearing aid.






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"Ear trumpet" Quotes from Famous Books



... secreted the electric bell, experienced such feverish usage. Pressure after pressure invoked its aid, and the pretexts for re-admission were soon not made at all, or simply disregarded by the parlour-maid. Colonel Boucher might have left a bull-dog, and Mrs Antrobus an ear trumpet, or Miss Antrobus (Piggy) a shoe lace, and the other Miss Antrobus (Goosie) a shoe-horn: but in brisk succession the guests who had been so sarcastic about the party on the village-green, jostled each other in order to revisit the scenes of their irony. Miss Olga ...
— Queen Lucia • E. F. Benson



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