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butter-muslin

butter-muslin is the alternative form of butter muslin.

Meaning of butter muslin

Noun

butter muslin (usually uncountable, plural butter muslins)

  1. (usually) A cotton fabric similar to cheesecloth but with a tighter weave, used for draining and wrapping butter and cheeses.
    • Always strain the cream into the churn through a fine piece of butter muslin, and never fill it more than one-third full; otherwise there will not be sufficient agitation when the cream is churned.1916, Dairy Produce, Volume 23, Issue 1, Chicago Produce Company, https://books.google.ca/books?id=EkM6AQAAMAAJ&q=%22butter+muslin%22&dq=%22butter+muslin%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOhOCX18HNAhVJ7WMKHe0...

Forms of butter-muslin

pluralbutter-muslins

Questions about butter-muslin

What is butter-muslin the alternative form of?
Butter-muslin is the alternative form of butter muslin.

Words near butter-muslin in the dictionary

  1. butter-fats
  2. butter-fingered
  3. butter-flower
  4. butter-ham
  5. butter-hams
  6. butter-muslin
  7. butter-slide
  8. butter-slides
  9. butter-woman
  10. butter-women
  11. butterable

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