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Noun

Cheshire cheese ‎(plural Cheshire cheeses)

1. A dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire.
   • 1711, Sir Richard Steele; Joseph Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., volume 4, John Nutt:

     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?

   • 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:

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

   • 1966, Stella Davies, Living Through the Industrial Revolution, published 2013:

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

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