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butter muslin

butter muslin noun: a cotton fabric similar to cheesecloth but with a tighter weave, used for draining and wrapping butter and cheeses.

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...
    • They had a way of treating certain wounds which I suppose was in accordance with the latest medical practice, but which was peculiarly horrible to look at. This was to leave the wound completely open and unbandaged, but protected from flies by a net of butter-muslin, stretched over wires.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC

Forms of butter muslin

pluralbutter muslins
alternative formbutter-muslin

Questions about butter muslin

What does butter muslin mean?
Butter muslin means a cotton fabric similar to cheesecloth but with a tighter weave, used for draining and wrapping butter and cheeses.
What part of speech is butter muslin?
Butter muslin is a noun.
What is the plural of butter muslin?
The plural of butter muslin is butter muslins.

Words near butter muslin in the dictionary

  1. butter measure
  2. butter measures
  3. butter mochi
  4. butter mountain
  5. butter mountains
  6. butter muslin
  7. butter my butt and call it a biscuit
  8. butter my butt and call me a biscuit
  9. butter of antimony
  10. butter of arsenic
  11. butter of tin

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