What does moth-ball mean?
Moth-ball means Alternative form of mothball..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of mothball..
Me and Solly, as I now called him, prepared to shake off our moth-balls and wing our way against the arc-lights of the joyous and tuneful East.
The church interior was as comfortable as Sunday-morning toast and marmalade— […] and a general polite creaking of ladies' best strays and gentlemen's stiff shirt-bosoms, and an odor of the best cologne and moth-balls.
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Moth-ball means Alternative form of mothball..
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Me and Solly, as I now called him, prepared to shake off our moth-balls and wing our way against the arc-lights of the joyous and tuneful East.
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