soup strainer

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.

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.