ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Eartrumpet

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Eartrumpet is a noun meaning Alternative form of ear trumpet.

Meaning

Alternative form of ear trumpet.

Example Sentences

Anna Kohlmann puts down the eartrumpet and admires herself in the mirror.
'I was thinking that an old lady wouldn't try and compete with a brass band by shouting into an eartrumpet...'
The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.

Word Forms

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