Definition of earflap in US English:
earflap
nounˈɪrflæpˈirflapˈɪrflæp
A flap of material on a hat or cap, covering the ear.
Example sentencesExamples
- It's raw silk and made in Nepal and it has ear flaps and long strings and it's very cool.
- You'll need more than air and hair between your dome and the elements, and on freezing days, add ear flaps; better to look goofy than feel miserable.
- Jayne opens a mail package from his mother that contains a wool cap with ear flaps and a pom-pom.
- But as many as 60,000 were expected to be left to sleep in the open, and the Ministry of Food proposed stocks of knee-length boots, heavy overcoats, hats with ear flaps and gloves for them.
- She misinterprets comments made by her friend's mother, and as a result becomes self-conscious about her looks, choosing to hide her ears under a winter cap with ear flaps.
- Aymara men in the altiplano wear long cotton trousers and woolen caps with ear flaps.
- The fur hats are either in the Russian style with ear flaps or a beanie shape.
- He was wearing a leather aviator's jacket, a scarf, and a heavy hat with ear flaps.
- The company makes a Polartec cap that has ear flaps, and it's a lot ‘cooler’ than it sounds.
- Next-generation hearing aids programmed with the wearer's spatial filters will be able to exploit the directional information created by the ear flaps and so help to target one sound while rejecting others.