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With bitter humor, the French press dubbed the boxes "Nikita's Borsch Strainers," for they were there to test every morsel of food set before the Premier at the table of the President of France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Strainers are easily reached at the forward end, as are the bulkhead-mounted Racors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many a traveller lighted near us and abode, Quaffing wine wherein the purest water flowed— Strainers on each flagon's mouth to clear the wine, Noble steeds that paw the earth in trappings fine!

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold