soup strainer
noun1
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 for trussing.1884, Sarah Tyson Rorer, Mrs. Rorer's Philadelphia Cook Book: A Manual of Home Economies, page 544:
- Remove and pass through a fine mesh soup strainer into a separate handi/pan.2004, Jiggs Kalra, Pushpesh Pant, Classic Cooking Of Punjab, Allied Publishers, page 40:
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- 2007, G. Gopal, Delicious Dishes (Vegetarian), Sura Books, page 77, When cool, pass the cooked mixture through a soup strainer.
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:
- 2004, Ronald E. Yates, Finding Billy Battles, California Times Publishing, unnumbered page, Charley stroked his goatee and moustache. "I don't know. I got this here soup strainer and chin whiskers now, and I didn't in Tombstone. […] "
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- 2013, Jon Sharpe, The Trailsman, No. 376: New Mexico Madman, Penguin (New American Library, Signet), page 21, He was a thickset man with a huge soup-strainer mustache and a pockmarked face.