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Cheshire cheese

noun

  1. a mild-flavoured cheese with a crumbly texture, originally made in Cheshire
“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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Example Sentences

The Cheshire Cheese is something of a first cousin by comparison.

The Cheshire Cheese no doubt was the tavern Dickens was thinking of when he wrote the foregoing passages.

The fine wheaten bread which I find here, besides excellent butter and Cheshire-cheese, makes up for my scanty dinners.

Some of these lark puddings are even shipped to Yankeeland, which sends every year countless pilgrims to the “Cheshire Cheese.”

A night at the "Cheshire Cheese," by the way, might be prolific in ghostly adventure.

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