earmuffs

nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,687 of 15,258leans spoken

Earmuffs are two pads on a band that keep the ears warm. A pair of earmuffs, wear earmuffs, fold the earmuffs away.

The word is plural only, like glasses. The other kind is protective: earmuffs on a building site or a firing range cut noise, and they are rated by how many decibels they take off.

Definitions of earmuffs

1nounearmuffsTwo pads on a band that keep the ears warm.B1+
“She put on her woolly hat and earmuffs before going out into the snow.”

earmuffs is a covering.

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earmuffs in the wild

Chester Greenwood was an American engineer and inventor, known for inventing the earmuffs in 1873.
Chester Greenwood
Hearing protection earmuffs are a type of personal protective equipment.
Earmuffs
Modern ski helmets may include many additional features, such as vents, earmuffs, headphones, goggle mounts, and camera mounts.
Ski helmet
Winter clothes are especially outerwear like coats, jackets, hats, scarves and gloves or mittens, earmuffs, but also warm underwear like long underwear, union suits, snow boots and socks.
Winter clothing
By the 1960s, International Hat was mostly producing baseball caps, straw hats, earmuffs, plastic helmets, and plastic sun hats.
International Hat Company

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