cheesecloth

English

Cheese hung in cheesecloth

Etymology

From cheese +‎ cloth.

Noun

cheesecloth (countable and uncountable, plural cheesecloths)

1. A loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used to wrap cheese, but now used for various culinary tasks and by farmers to shade crops and keep birds off.

Derived terms

• cheeseclothed

Translations

loosely woven cotton gauze

• Albanian: mësallë djathi f, napëlungë (sq) f
• Bulgarian: тензух (tenzuh)
• Danish: ostelærred
• Dutch: kaasdoek (nl) n
• French: étamine à fromage f
• German: Seihtuch n (generally); Käsetuch (de) n (specifically for cheese)
• Greek: τουλουπάνι (el) n (touloupáni)
• Italian: stamigna (it) f
• Ottoman Turkish: دلبند (dülbend)
• Polish: etamina f
• Portuguese: morim (pt) m
• Russian: ма́рля (ru) f (márlja)
• Spanish: estameña f
• Swedish: ostduk c
• Turkish: tülbent (tr)
• Welsh: lliain caws m