"moth-ball" meaning in English

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          "text": "Me and Solly, as I now called him, prepared to shake off our moth-balls and wing our way against the arc-lights of the joyous and tuneful East.",
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          "text": "The church interior was as comfortable as Sunday-morning toast and marmalade— […] and a general polite creaking of ladies' best strays and gentlemen's stiff shirt-bosoms, and an odor of the best cologne and moth-balls.",
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