"earlid" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From ear + lid.",
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          "ref": "2008, Glenn Murphy, How Loud Can You Burp?, page 22:",
          "text": "But wouldn't earlids be useful too? Possibly. But not so useful that without them earlid-less animals would die out[…]",
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          "ref": "2009, Seth Kim-Cohen, In the blink of an ear: toward a non-cochlear sonic art, page xx:",
          "text": "There is no such thing as an earlid. The ear is always open, always supplementing its primary materiality, always multiplying the singularity of perception into the plurality of experience.",
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          "ref": "2009 June 23, Natalie Angier, “When an Ear Witness Decides the Case”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "But when one neighbor’s leaf blower sets off another neighbor’s car alarm, hey, where are my earlids?",
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        "An imaginary fold of skin that would allow the ear to be closed as the eye can be."
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          "text": "But when one neighbor’s leaf blower sets off another neighbor’s car alarm, hey, where are my earlids?",
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