mosquito net

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mosquito net

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mosquito net (plural mosquito nets)

  1. A fine net, placed around a bed, in a window opening, etc., to provide protection against mosquitoes and other insects, and the diseases carried by them.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 505:
      In the room the mosquito net was down, ghost-grey in the falling light.

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