Meanings
- uncountableWire mesh used to keep out mosquitoes.
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 20011 more example
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
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