cheesecloth

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Cheese hung in cheesecloth

Etymology

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From cheese +‎ cloth.

Noun

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cheesecloth (countable and uncountable, plural cheesecloths)

  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.

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