Meaning of Cheshire cheese | Babel Free

Definitions

A dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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?”

“Cheshire cheeses, on account of their great size, are generally packed flat, and in a single tier only.”

“Cheshire cheese had been sent to London from as early as the sixteenth century.”

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