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noun
An alternative medicine practice supposed to assist the natural clearing of earwax from a person's ear, involving lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: alternative-medicine, medicine, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
History
From ear candle + -ing.
