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Cheesecloth

noun
1.
A coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses.





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"Cheesecloth" Quotes from Famous Books



... around the room, examining the fantastic furnishings in all their magnificence of cotton velvet and red cheesecloth. ...
— The Gay Rebellion • Robert W. Chambers
... came to Rome—twenty-two and art-mad. She had been pretty, with that pink-cheesecloth prettiness of the provincial English girl, who degenerates into blowsiness at thirty. Since seventeen she had saved and scrimped and contrived for this modest Roman holiday. She had given painting lessons—even ...
— Cheerful—By Request • Edna Ferber


Words linked to "Cheesecloth" :   netting, veiling, gauze


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