| 单词 | mosquito bar | 
| 释义 | mosquito barn. U.S.   A framework covered with mosquito netting to protect an individual from mosquitoes; (also) netting for this purpose. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > 			[noun]		 > hangings > curtain > net or lace curtain > for specific purpose fly-neta1000 gnat-net1658 mosquito net1745 mosquito bar1804 mosquito wire1949 1804    J. Ordway in  Jrnls. Lewis & Ordway 		(1916)	 87  				Got mosquetoes bears from Capt Lewis to sleep in. 1805    M. Lewis in  Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. 		(1904)	 II. 228  				I sent a man to the canoes for my musquetoe bier. 1828    J. Hall Lett. from West 227  				The musquitoe bar..is a curtain, of the thinnest gauze, or leno, or some such slight fabric, which admits the air, and excludes the mosquitoe. 1889    M. E. Bamford Up & down Brooks 65  				A section of mosquito-bar was tied over the whole. 1946    Chicago Daily News 9 Aug. 12/1  				That ‘Iron Curtain’ around Russia is beginning to look like a fly screen or a mosquito bar. 1992    Beaver Aug. 20/1  				Crawled under mosquito bar at 9:15 just as the moon rose. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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