ear-trumpet

plural ear-trumpets

1. alternativeAlternative form of ear trumpet.

   After another attempt to open a conversation with the old lady, I roared into her ear-trumpet that she had not got colitis, but that I was sure she would get it if she did not give up her pâté de foie gras.

   2010, Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele

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   In middle-age, the novelist Evelyn Waugh became increasingly deaf in his right ear: here he puts his ear-trumpet to unusual use. He loved his ear-trumpet, which, though uselessly antiquated in appearance, was a highly refined and effective instrument of amplification.

   1987, Brian Grant, The Quiet Ear: Deafness in Literature, page 23

   She is the most continual talker I ever heard; it is really like the babbling of a brook, and very lively and sensible too; and all the while she talks she moves the bowl of her ear-trumpet from one auditor to another, so that it becomes quite an organ of intelligence and sympathy between her and yourself.

   2010, Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, page 275