Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A covering of fine netting supported on a frame, or tester and suspended over a bed as a protection against insects.
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Examples
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Four stakes, five feet high, were driven into the ground and the mosquito-canopy simply hung over them.
Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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The remainder of that day, Mrs. Fred and I lay under a mosquito-canopy, played solitaire, and rested our aching bodies.
Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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