flywire
See also: fly-wire
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- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈflʌɪwʌɪə/
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Noun
flywire (usually uncountable, plural flywires)
- (chiefly Australia) A type of screening used to exclude flies and other insects.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VIII, p. 126,
- He noticed for the first time that the fellow was naked. He had taken little notice of him in the darkened room, and afterwards had seen him only through the fly-wire door.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, page 367:
- For a moment, she feared he would, like a new puppy, burst through the flywire.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VIII, p. 126,
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