mosquito wire

mosquito wire (uncountable)

1. Wire mesh used to keep out mosquitoes.
   • 1910, Agnes Christina Laut, chapter 21, in The Freebooters of the Wilderness‎, New York: Moffat, Yard & Co, page 311:

     Where the Pass widened to the Valley above the Sheriff’s homestead, they came on a huge miner’s tent boarded half way up as for winter residence, with eight tow-headed half-clad urchins thumb in mouth staring out from the open mosquito wire door.

   • 1940, Graham Greene, chapter 1, in The Power and the Glory, Vintage, published 2001:

     One pane of stained glass had been let in: a Madonna gazed out through the mosquito wire at the turkeys in the yard.