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Definition of Soup-strainer
1. Noun. Slang for a mustache.
Generic synonyms: Moustache, Mustache
Language type: Argot, Cant, Jargon, Lingo, Patois, Slang, Vernacular
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soup-strainer
Literary usage of Soup-strainer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Invalid Cooking for the Use of Nurses in Training-schools by Mary A. Boland (1893)
"... strain it through a soup-strainer, pressing and mashing with the back of a
spoon until all but a few tough fibers of the celery are squeezed through. ..."
2. A Handbook of Invalid Cooking for the Use of Nurses in Training-schools by Mary A. Boland (1893)
"... strain it through a soup-strainer, pressing and mashing with the back of a
spoon until all but a few tough fibers of the celery are squeezed through. ..."
3. A Text-book on the Practice of Gynecology: For Practitioners and Students by William Easterly Ashton (1907)
"Cook an onion in the milk and with it make a white sauce with the flour and
butter; add this to the celery and strain it through a soup strainer, ..."
4. A Text-book on the Practice of Gynecology: For Practitioners and Students by William Easterly Ashton (1906)
"Cook an onion in the mi and with it make a white sauce with the flour and butter;
add this to the cele and strain it through a soup strainer, pressing and ..."
5. A Text-book on the Practice of Gynecology: For Practitioners and Students by William Easterly Ashton (1905)
"Cook an onion i and with it make a white sauce with the flour and butter; add
this to and strain it through a soup strainer, pressing and mashing with ..."
6. A Text-book on the practice of gynecology: For Practitioners and Students by William Easterly Ashton (1916)
"Cook an onion in the milk and with it make a white sauce with the flour and
butter; add this to the celery and strain it through a soup strainer, ..."
7. A Handbook of Invalid Cooking: For the Use of Nurses in Training-schools by Mary A. Boland (1893)
"Cook the onion in the milk, and with it make a white sauce with the butter and
flour; add this to the celery, and strain it through a soup-strainer, ..."
8. Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice by Eliza Acton (1858)
"Pulp the whole through a coarse sieve or soup-strainer, put it again on the fire,
keep it stirred until it has boiled three minutes, take off the scum, ..."
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