miller mothとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

miller moth (複数形 miller moths)

1. Any of several species of moths with pale, dusty wings.
   • 1890, Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Jan of the Windmill: A Story of the Plains, page 29

     One of those small white moths, known as '• millers," went past him. […]. Even the miller-moth had gone.

   • 1894, Thomas Hardy, “[A Few Crusted Characters.] The Superstitious Man’s Story”, in Life’s Little Ironies […], London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], OCLC 1229736910, pages 253–254:

     [H]e saw one of those great white miller's souls as we call 'em—that is to say, a miller-moth—come from William's open mouth while he slept, and fly straight away.