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Cheshire cheeses

Cheshire cheeses is the plural of Cheshire cheese.

Meaning of 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

Questions about Cheshire cheeses

What is Cheshire cheeses the plural of?
Cheshire cheeses is the plural of Cheshire cheese.

Words near Cheshire cheeses in the dictionary

  1. Cheshiers
  2. Cheshire
  3. Cheshire cat
  4. Cheshire cats
  5. Cheshire cheese
  6. Cheshire cheeses
  7. Cheshire County
  8. Cheshire East
  9. Cheshire moon
  10. Cheshire West and Chester
  11. cheshirisation

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