Cheshire cheese
Britishnoun
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There have been declines in Somerset with cheddar makers, in the East Midlands with Stilton and in the north-west with Cheshire cheese.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024
Taking out a block of Cheshire cheese, the man who engineered England's first canal carved out a model of the waterway he hoped to build.
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2016
I have had a beef-steak, with boiled potatoes; I have also had a fried sole, and some bread, with Cheshire cheese, and a pint of porter.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
Cheshire cheese was 2d. to 21/2d. per lb.,
From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)
A gentleman in the prime of life, lay extended on a bed—his hair dishevelled, his dress disordered, and his complexion a midway hue between the tints of chalk and Cheshire cheese.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 472, January 22, 1831 by Various
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