flesh-fly

See also: fleshfly and flesh fly

English

Noun

flesh-fly (plural flesh-flies)

Alternative form of flesh fly.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
  (FERDINAND) I am, in my condition,
  A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king;—
  I would not so!—and would no more endure
  This wooden slavery than to suffer
  The flesh-fly blow my mouth.