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cheese⋅cloth

[cheez-klawth, -kloth]
–noun
a lightweight cotton fabric of open texture.
Also called, especially British, butter muslin.


Origin:
1650–60; so called because first used to wrap cheese
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cheese·cloth   (chēz'klôth', -klŏth')   
n.  A coarse, loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used for wrapping cheese.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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