"soup strainer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1884, Sarah Tyson Rorer, Mrs. Rorer's Philadelphia Cook Book: A Manual of Home Economies, page 544:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2004, Jiggs Kalra, Pushpesh Pant, Classic Cooking Of Punjab, Allied Publishers, page 40:",
          "text": "Remove and pass through a fine mesh soup strainer into a separate handi/pan.",
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          "text": "2007, G. Gopal, Delicious Dishes (Vegetarian), Sura Books, page 77,\nWhen cool, pass the cooked mixture through a soup strainer."
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        "A device or implement used as a strainer for soup."
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          "ref": "1976, Matt Braun, Buck Colter, St. Martin's Press, page 26:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "2004, Ronald E. Yates, Finding Billy Battles, California Times Publishing, unnumbered page,\nCharley 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. […] \""
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          "text": "2013, Jon Sharpe, The Trailsman, No. 376: New Mexico Madman, Penguin (New American Library, Signet), page 21,\nHe was a thickset man with a huge soup-strainer mustache and a pockmarked face."
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        "A moustache, particularly a handlebar moustache, that droops."
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        "(humorous) A moustache, particularly a handlebar moustache, that droops."
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        },
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          "text": "2007, G. Gopal, Delicious Dishes (Vegetarian), Sura Books, page 77,\nWhen cool, pass the cooked mixture through a soup strainer."
        }
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        },
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          "text": "2004, Ronald E. Yates, Finding Billy Battles, California Times Publishing, unnumbered page,\nCharley 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. […] \""
        },
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          "text": "2013, Jon Sharpe, The Trailsman, No. 376: New Mexico Madman, Penguin (New American Library, Signet), page 21,\nHe was a thickset man with a huge soup-strainer mustache and a pockmarked face."
        }
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