"miller moth" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1890, Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Jan of the Windmill: A Story of the Plains, page 29:",
          "text": "One of those small white moths, known as '• millers,\" went past him. […]. Even the miller-moth had gone.",
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          "ref": "1894, Thomas Hardy, “[A Few Crusted Characters.] The Superstitious Man’s Story”, in Life’s Little Ironies […], London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 253–254:",
          "text": "[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.",
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          "ref": "1984, Steven Laurence Kaplan, Provisioning Paris: Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade, page 284:",
          "text": "They caught a large moth called a miller for its dusty white wings, […] after which they crushed the miller-moth for his misdeeds.",
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