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Meaning of moth-ball | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

moth-eaten moth-er moth-hunter mothafucka mothafucker mothafugga

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