In Illinois, a three-judge district court upheld Illinois '4th Congressional District-the famous "earmuff" district (see district top right above) - against a Shaw challenge, and the Supreme Court summarily affirmed that decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minority Vote Dilution Is Still Illegal] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All the earmarks of an earmuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2004] Reference

Dennis Kucinich left politics to open a chain of big and tall earmuff stores.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2008] Reference

I went to the hardware store and bought headphone-earmuff-thingie ear protectors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: Earmuffs for Protection from a Wailing Baby | Thingamababy] Reference

Image: Courtesy David A. Greenwood 1858: Chester Greenwood, inventor of the earmuff, is born.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dec. 4, 1858: It Was Very Cold the Day Chester Greenwood Was Born] Reference

After buying and testing five earmuff-headset combos, though, we saw that assumption turned upside-down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hear Muffs] Reference

Gordini USA, an Essex Junction, Vt., ski-glove maker, branched out into earmuff-headsets about 18 months ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hear Muffs] Reference

By the time Greenwood died in 1937, production had reached 400,000 pairs annually, making Farmington the "earmuff capital of the world.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dec. 4, 1858: It Was Very Cold the Day Chester Greenwood Was Born] Reference

I use the earmuff variety of hearing protection; I keep one pair in the basement for indoor work and another one in the garage, near the mower.    From Wordnik.com.  [What’s that you said about mower noise?] Reference

Departing from the “Princess Leia” earmuff designs that began appearing last year, some new models comprise earbuds that attach by wire to a Bluetooth pendant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mobilizing music and text] Reference

Now I heard steps coming down the stairs, then a middle-aged or early-elderly white-bearded man appeared, wearing an overcoat and a round cloth cap with earmuff flaps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Again]

Maybe it would be clearer if the cartoon had someone wearing a CSI jacket sweater, earmuff, scarf, anything to keep warm with “CSI” on it taking a picture of the chef.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three "New" Sites from Anthony Watts « Climate Audit] Reference

Is there an electric earmuff out there that 1. amplifies ambient sounds, 2. shuts out gunfire, and 3. is small enough to be worn under a hat or a hood, not clank against your stock when you shoulder your weapon, etc.?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can You Hear Me Now?] Reference

Like the company's other headsets, such as the earmuff-style.    From Wordnik.com.  [PCWorld] Reference

Great-sounding music; comfortable headband and earmuff design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macworld] Reference

I go for the earmuff or earpad approach every time, and Jabra's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macworld] Reference

If that is not feasible, use earmuff-type flushers as an alternative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily News - News] Reference

I've fixed her hair lovely -- in a big curly earmuff, so it will never show at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ptomaine Street] Reference

But he contested Khadr's claim the goggles and earmuff measure began only Wednesday for the detainee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dose.ca Music briefs] Reference

Bwindi is to the censorship and freedom of speech of the interference and is 560 earmuff from kampala.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wii-volution]

Since Sgt Pepper was my album, I started to listen to its songs in pairs, with my earmuff headphones on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmodo] Reference

Now if you could figure out how to also get her to wear a pair of those earmuff style ear protectors ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Rachel Lucas] Reference

Mervin Manufacturing has also been lending your desires an earmuff through their Lib Tech and Gnu-brand snowboard lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alternative Consumer] Reference

He was unable to get people to see the magic of the device -- no great surprise, given the massive earmuff headphones that were the state-of-the-art in the sixties and seventies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Retro Thing] Reference

He's clearly witty, stylish and with the times, so one can't help but wonder what's playing on those things (or if he's just using them as a particularly hip earmuff alternative).    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Vanguard RSS] Reference

Only NoiseBuster combines a passive earmuff with active noise-canceling electronics to deliver overall noise cancellation performance that is unmatched by any other hearing protector.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Though they are adjustable, they may still be too loose for younger babies, said Shari Murphy, the company's North American operations manager, adding that earmuff sales rose 40 percent after the Super Bowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

There were a few edgy pieces thrown in for good measure - think a sober blazer in gray flannel with quilted leather sleeves that looked as if they'd been shorn off a motorcycle jacket, metal stud-covered ties and fuzzy earmuff-headphone hybrids.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Leading solutions include the highest attenuating Max® single-use earplug; patented Air Flow Control ™ technology for optimal earmuff attenuation; QuietDose ™ personal in-ear dosimetry; and the industry-changing VeriPRO® earplug fit testing system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

(Below is Illinois's "earmuff district designed to corral Hispanics.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Districting By Pigmentation] Reference

I wear a radio headset at work like you see helicopter pilots wear and I’ve found that the earbuds work ok when I pop them in the earmuff pockets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking for People Like Me « Whatever] Reference

In spite of another poster’s comment, I am unaware of any sound-deafening caused by my helmet by the way, the earmuff like inserts are still in mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richardson’s Accident Reignites Ski Helmet Debate - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Fellas, you may wanna earmuff right about now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

I think it’s because of the hat earmuff thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regretsy – WTF Alchemy Request] Reference