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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cheesecloth
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gyggle's hideous cheesecloth shirt, the buttons pulled apart to the sternum, revealing still more tight ginger curlicues.
▪ Have ready a colander standing in a deep bowl, and lined with the dampened muslin or cheesecloth.
▪ Smaller Artemia obtained by sifting the shrimp through cheesecloth or bolting cloth are satisfactory.
▪ The burnt cork was there and a small dish of water and a piece of cheesecloth.
▪ The window spaces were covered with greasy cheesecloth.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cheesecloth

cheesecloth \cheese"cloth`\, Cheese cloth \Cheese" cloth`\(ch[=e]z" kl[o^]th`; 115). A thin, loosely-woven cotton cloth of a gauze texture, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.

Wiktionary
cheesecloth

n. 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.

WordNet
cheesecloth

n. a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses

Wikipedia
Cheesecloth

Cheesecloth is a loose-woven gauze-like cotton cloth used primarily in cheese making and cooking.

Usage examples of "cheesecloth".

In her hippy, gypsyish clothes -- cheesecloth blouse and long madras skirt, silver bangles on her arms and a ring on every finger -- she was unlikely as either a housekeeper or a secretary.

The presence of some kind of material, perhaps cheesecloth found on the blowflies wings suggests that the victim was covered for a period of time.

Enormous wheels of cheese hung from the high rafters, some wrapped in gauzy cheesecloth, some covered in coatings of wax and wound round with rope, some encasedr in great crystals of rock salt.

I stayed in the cheapest, where one electric bulb hung from a string in the middle of the room, where the sheets were like cheesecloth, and where the mattresses -- when they were revealed as they usually were after a night's restless sleep -- were like maps of strange worlds, the continents being defined by unpleasing stains, doubtless traceable to the incontinent dreams of travelling salesmen, or the rapturous deflowerings of brides from the backwoods.

As she covered it with a piece of cheesecloth, I saw pieces of what appeared to be the large caps of the mushrooms we had found in the woods, drained of their redness but nonetheless recognizable.