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flywire (usually uncountable, plural flywires)
- (chiefly Australia) A type of screening used to exclude flies and other insects.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia[1], page 126:
- He noticed for the first time that the fellow was naked. He had taken little notice of him in the darkened room, and afterwards had seen him only through the fly-wire door.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 367:
- For a moment, she feared he would, like a new puppy, burst through the flywire.
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 64:
- He stood in the deep shadow of the open doorway, holding the flywire back with one hand and watching them get out and stretch their limbs in the sun.