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cheesecloth

cheesecloth 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.

cheesecloth: a loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used to wrap cheese, but now used for various culinary...
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Noun

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.

Forms of cheesecloth

pluralcheesecloths

Origin of cheesecloth

From cheese + cloth.

Words formed from cheesecloth

Questions about cheesecloth

What does cheesecloth mean?
Cheesecloth means 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.
What part of speech is cheesecloth?
Cheesecloth is a noun.
What is the plural of cheesecloth?
The plural of cheesecloth is cheesecloths.

Words near cheesecloth in the dictionary

  1. cheeseburgery
  2. cheesecake
  3. cheesecakes
  4. cheesecakey
  5. cheesecaky
  6. cheesecloth
  7. cheeseclothed
  8. cheesecloths
  9. cheesecutter
  10. cheesecutters
  11. cheesed

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