mosquito wire
mosquito wire noun: wire mesh used to keep out mosquitoes.
Noun
mosquito wire (uncountable)
- Wire mesh used to keep out mosquitoes.
- Where the Pass widened to the Valley above the Sheriff’s homestead, they came on a huge miner’s tent boarded half way up as for winter residence, with eight tow-headed half-clad urchins thumb in mouth staring out from the open mosquito wire door.1910, Agnes Christina Laut, chapter 21, in The Freebooters of the Wilderness, New York: Moffat, Yard & Co, page 311
- One pane of stained glass had been let in: a Madonna gazed out through the mosquito wire at the turkeys in the yard.1940, Graham Greene, chapter 1, in The Power and the Glory, Vintage, published 2001
Questions about mosquito wire
- What does mosquito wire mean?
- Mosquito wire means wire mesh used to keep out mosquitoes.
- What part of speech is mosquito wire?
- Mosquito wire is a noun.
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