Meaning of eartrumpet | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“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.”

“'I was thinking that an old lady wouldn't try and compete with a brass band by shouting into an eartrumpet...'”

“Anna Kohlmann puts down the eartrumpet and admires herself in the mirror.”

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