brick cheese
noun
a semisoft, sweet-tasting American cheese, made from the whole milk of cows and produced in brick form.
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Origin of brick cheese
An Americanism dating back to 1875–80
Words nearby brick cheese
Brice, bricht, brick, brick-and-mortar, brickbat, brick cheese, brickearth, Bricker operation, brickfield, brickie, bricking
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Example sentences from the Web for brick cheese
In his bosom the milk of human kindness had clabbered and turned to a brick-cheese.
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