cream cheesen.
A soft, rich kind of cheese, made of unskimmed milk enriched by the addition of cream; a cheese of this kind. figurative. Sometimes used as a type of extreme fastidiousness of taste, elegance of language or style.
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1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries ii. 53 b A pounde of Creame Cheese two Sous.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xiv. 90 With this creame to make creame cheese, ordinarily accustomed to be solde in sommer.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 438 An English gentleman may believe the world was made by chance, or the moon made of cream cheese, if he pleases.
1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich v. 120 If the cream-cheeses be white, far whiter the hands that made them.
c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 355/2 Cream-cheese is the richest.
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