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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