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dun fly
noun
- a dun-colored artificial fly that resembles the larval stage of certain real flies.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of dun fly1
Example Sentences
The flies I have just named will kill well in the Carra, with a small black one, like a midge, ribbed with silver, with a honey dun fly made very small.
The second is another dun fly: the body of black wool; and the wings made of the black drake’s feathers, and of the feathers under his tail.’
The first is the dun fly in March: the body is made of dun wool, the wings of the partridge’s feathers.
So the old hen who has swallowed the dun fly is killed, plucked, and roasted, and certain "black Dartmoor mutton" is put on the gridiron, and being compelled to confess the truth by that fiery torment, proclaims itself to all noses as red-deer venison.
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