Moth-ball

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of mothball. alt-of, alternative

    "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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ballcamphor balldeferpigeonholepigeonholeset aside

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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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