blue cheese

blue cheese

n. A semisoft cheese made of cow's milk and having a greenish-blue mold and strong flavor. Also called bleu cheese.

blue cheese

n (Cookery) cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue. Also called (Austral and NZ): blue vein

blue′ cheese`

n. any of various usu. rich, strong-flavored cheeses streaked with blue or greenish veins of mold. [1920–25]

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blue cheese - cheese containing a blue mold bleucheese - a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milkStilton - English blue cheeseRoquefort - French blue cheesegorgonzola - Italian blue cheeseDanish blue - blue cheese of DenmarkBavarian blue - blue cheese of Bavaria

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