cheesecloth

English

Cheese hung in cheesecloth

Etymology

cheese +‎ cloth

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.

Translations

loosely woven cotton gauze

• Albanian: mësallë djathi f
• Bulgarian: тензух (tenzuh)
• Danish: ostelærred
• Dutch: kaasdoek (nl) n
• French: étamine à fromage f
• German: Käsetuch (de) n
• Greek: τουλουπάνι (el) n (touloupáni)
• Italian: stamigna f

• Polish: etamina f
• Portuguese: morim (pt) m
• Russian: ма́рля (ru) f (márlja)
• Spanish: estameña f
• Swedish: ostduk c
• Turkish: tülbent (tr)
• Welsh: lliain caws m