Appendages on either side of a fur cap.
1855. In stable-yards, old-looking black boys, in cat-skin caps, with ear-tabs to them, whistle airs from ‘Semarimis,’ while they sew together long pieces of almost unmatchable trace-leather ‘for tandems.’—Knick. Mag., xlv. 199 (Feb.).
1909. With the first really cold weather of the winter, there appeared on Broadway the vendors of ear-tabs, always to be seen on that thoroughfare when the mercury is low.—N.Y. Evening Post, Jan. 28.
