"ear-trumpet" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "ear-trumpets",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "ear trumpet"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Brian Grant, The Quiet Ear: Deafness in Literature, page 23",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, page 275",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of ear trumpet"
      ],
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          "ear trumpet",
          "ear trumpet#English"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "ear-trumpet"
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    {
      "form": "ear-trumpets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "ear trumpet"
        }
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Brian Grant, The Quiet Ear: Deafness in Literature, page 23",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, page 275",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of ear trumpet"
      ],
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          "ear trumpet",
          "ear trumpet#English"
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  "word": "ear-trumpet"
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