Cheesecloth

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  • noun. A coarse, loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used for wrapping cheese.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A coarse cotton fabric of an open texture, used in cheese-making for wrapping the cheese.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • A thin, loosely-woven cotton cloth of a gauze texture, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses
    • Word Usage
    "Tie up some yogurt in cheesecloth and hang it over a bowl for 4-8 hours."
    Equivalent
    cheese cloth  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gauze  netting  veiling  
    Same Context
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