mosquito netting

noun

1. netting used in the making of mosquito nets.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mosquito netting¹

First recorded in 1735–45

Example Sentences

Just a short walk from the airstrip, these four tent platforms are fenced in with mosquito netting and are the perfect basecamp for kayaking around the national park’s massive, namesake lake.

From Outside Online

And with covering from the wet and weather over my head and with plenty of mosquito netting, I felt established for the summer.

From Project Gutenberg

But Nancy was on her knees by Anne-Marie's bed, with her face buried in the mosquito-netting, and did not move when he entered.

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Then she sat on a chair near the child's bed, and put her face down again in the mosquito-netting.

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The coachman turned with a dignified gesture, if one can look dignified in a shirt thin as mosquito-netting.

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Her bonnet and veila green mosquito-netting veilwere wreckedand she had managed to muddy herself thoroughly, too.

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