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blue cheese

noun

  1. a rich cheese in which the internal mold manifests itself in blue veins: made in France especially from sheep's milk and elsewhere also from cow's milk and goat's milk.


blue cheese

noun

  1. cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue Also called (Austral and NZ)blue vein
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of blue cheese1

First recorded in 1920–25
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