Cheshire cheese

Noun

Cheshire cheese (countable and uncountable, plural Cheshire cheeses)

1. A dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire.
   • Would not he believe that he had the same Antipathy to a Candied Orange, or a Piece of Puff-Past, as some have to a Cheshire Cheese, or a Breast of Mutton?1711, Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., volume 4, John Nutt
   • Cheshire cheeses, on account of their great size, are generally packed flat, and in a single tier only.1901 February 16, “Liability of railway companies under special conditions attaching to carriage of goods at reduced rates”, in The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal, volume 35, J. Falconer...