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Cheshire cheese en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire.
   • Cheshire cheeses, on account of their great size, are generally packed flat, and in a single tier only. 1901 February 16, “Liability of railway companies under special conditions attaching to carriage of goods at reduced rates”, in The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal, volume 35, J. Falconer, page 80:
   • Would not he believe that he had the same Antipathy to a Candied Orange, or a Piece of Puff-Past, as some have to a Cheshire Cheese, or a Breast of Mutton? 1711, Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., volume 4, John Nutt:
   • Cheshire cheese had been sent to London from as early as the sixteenth century. 1966, Stella Davies, Living Through the Industrial Revolution, published 2013:

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Translations (25)

la cāseus Castrensis (type of cheese) · de Chesterkäse (type of cheese) · sv chester-ost (type of cheese) · ko 체셔 치즈 (type of cheese) · de Chester (type of cheese) · uk че́шир (type of cheese) · pl cheshire (type of cheese) · sv chesterost (type of cheese) · es Cheshire (type of cheese) · he גְּבִינַת־ צ׳שר (type of cheese) · de Chester-Käse (type of cheese) · cmn 柴郡芝士 (type of cheese) · id keju Cheshire (type of cheese) · ja チェシャーチーズ (type of cheese) · fr cheshire (type of cheese) · de Cheshire (type of cheese) · ru че́стер (type of cheese) · vi pho mát sexte (type of cheese) · gsw Cheshire-Chääs (type of cheese) · gsw Chester (type of cheese) · nl Cheshire (type of cheese) · fi cheshire (type of cheese) · fr chester (type of cheese) · he גְּבִינַת־ צ׳שייר (type of cheese) · pl chester (type of cheese)