fromage frais

/ (ˈfrɒmɑːʒ ˈfreɪ) /

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noun

a low-fat soft cheese with a smooth light texture

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Word Origin for fromage frais

French, literally: fresh cheese

Words nearby fromage frais

frôlement, frolic, frolicsome, from, fromage, fromage frais, from bad to worse, from dawn to dusk, Frome, Fromentin, fromenty

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How to use fromage frais in a sentence

Legendary critic Gael Greene samples the now-banned fromage.
Breast Milk Cheese|Gael Greene|March 9, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Thirion, Les frais du sacre in Travaux de l'académie de Reims, 1894.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2)|Anatole France
I do not mean to assert that no other person spoke—but the frais de la conversation were certainly furnished by the five natives.
Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 2 of 2)|Frances Trollope
Save for a waistband of yellow silk, he was clad wholly in that dead white which is known as fromage la crme.
A Transient Guest|Edgar Saltus

Saint Frais, finding himself isolated and alone in the redoubt, as he had before been on the mound, was forced to retire.
With Clive in India|G. A. Henty
Chaque Partie supporte ses propres frais et une part gale des frais de la Commission.
International Law. A Treatise. Volume II (of 2)|Lassa Francis Oppenheim