Cheshire cheese

English

Noun

Cheshire cheese (countable and uncountable, 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.‎^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], published 2013:

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

Translations

type of cheese

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柴郡芝士 (Cháijùn zhīshì)

• Dutch: Cheshire
• Finnish: cheshire
• French: cheshire (fr) m, chester (fr) m
• German: Chesterkäse (de) m, Chester-Käse m, Chester (de) m, Cheshire m

  Alemannic German: Cheshire-Chääs m, Chester m

• Hebrew: גְּבִינַת־ צ'שייר f, גְּבִינַת־ צ'שר f
• Indonesian: keju Cheshire
• Japanese: チェシャーチーズ (Cheshā chīzu)
• Korean: 체셔 치즈 (chesyeo chijeu)
• Latin: cāseus Castrensis m
• Polish: cheshire (pl) m, chester (pl) m
• Russian: че́стер (ru) m (čéster)
• Spanish: Cheshire m
• Swedish: chesterost c, chester-ost c
• Ukrainian: че́шир m (čéšyr)
• Vietnamese: pho mát sexte