Cheesecloth

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used to wrap cheese, but now used for various culinary tasks and by farmers to shade crops and keep birds off. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses wordnet

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corduroycottoncotton clothfabricfiltermuslin

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"Cheesecloth is probably cheaper at hardware stores than culinary specialty stores."

Etymology

From cheese + cloth.

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