ETYMOLOGY
from French gobe-mouches
(from gober (to swallow) + mouche (fly))
PRONUNCIATION
GOB-moosh
EXAMPLE
“…Such a representation the gobes mouches of Florence might have readily magnified into a change of religion.…”
From: Narrative Of A Residence In Algiers
By Edward Blaquière, translation of Filippo Pananti, 1818
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