Meaning of soup strainer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A device or implement used as a strainer for soup.
2. A moustache, particularly a handlebar moustache, that droops.
   humorous

Examples

“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.”

“Remove⟳ and pass⟳ through a fine mesh soup strainer into a separate⟳ handi/pan.”

“2007, G. Gopal, Delicious Dishes (Vegetarian), Sura Books, page 77, When cool, pass⟳ the cooked mixture through a soup strainer.”

“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.”

“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. […] "”

“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⟳.”

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