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A typical household colander

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From Middle English colyndore, coloundour, colonur, variants of Middle English culdor, culdore, culatre, ultimately from Latin cōlātōrium, from Latin cōlum. Cognates include Italian colino and Spanish colador.

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒlɪndə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑləndɚ/, /ˈkɔləndɚ/
  • Audio (UK):(file)

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colander (plural colanders)

  1. A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.
    Hypernyms: sieve, sile, strainer
    • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67:
      An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander. "This bowl will carry no water," he muttered. "Some loon hath pierced it with holes."

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