Basic Guidelines For English Spellings
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Any moth that has a tendency to enter buildings and whose larvae damage textiles and are a pest of stored foodstuffs; especially either of two predominantly brownish moths of the family Oecophoridae, Hofmannophila pseudospretella and Endrosis sarcitrella, which has white foreparts.
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Walter Nicol (d. 1811).