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camphor ball

camphor ball

noun

  1. another name for mothball
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of camphor ball1

First recorded in 1585–95
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Example Sentences

"Maybe ze camphor ball," she exclaimed aloud, lifting a corner of the box which nearly filled the bottom of the trunk.

Mounsier, please you to buy a fine delicate ball, sweet ball—a camphor ball?

Whenever we give a camphor-ball the moths attend, and as far as I can find out dance all through it.

And as for camphor balls—well, if I used up one camphor ball I used ten pounds.

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