soup strainers

Noun

soup strainer (plural soup strainers)

1. A device or implement used as a strainer for soup.
   • In the drawers should be kept cooking knives and forks, larding and trussing needles, wooden spoons and forks; also jelly-bags, dish towels, linen soup-strainers, fish cloths, and a large piece of cheese-cloth that may be torn in convenient pieces as wanted; a roll of tape and a ball of linen twine...1884, Sarah Tyson Rorer, Mrs. Rorer's Philadelphia Cook Book: A Manual of Home Economies, page 544
2. (humorous) A moustache, particularly a handlebar moustache, that droops.
   • Though tawny-skinned, he easily passed himself off as white, growing a thick soup-strainer of a mustache to complete the disguise of his pale gray eyes.1976, Matt Braun, Buck Colter, St. Martin's Press, page 26