dust mouse
Americannoun
Regionalisms
See dust ball.
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When his father died in 2013, Chris began to clear out his office in the attic — forbidden ground to him and his siblings when they were kids — and uncovered hundreds of books, published and unpublished, under a sheen of dust, mouse nests and the shed skins of snakes.
From Los Angeles Times
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