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Double Gloucester

Double Gloucester is the alternative form of double Gloucester.

Noun capitalized: double Gloucester

double Gloucester (countable and uncountable, plural double Gloucesters)

  1. A variety of Gloucester cheese, stronger and aged for longer than single Gloucester.

Forms of Double Gloucester

pluralDouble Gloucesters
pluraldouble Gloucesters
alternative formdouble Gloster

Origin of Double Gloucester

Uncertain. Perhaps because cream from the morning milk was added to the evening milk, because the milk was skimmed twice, or because the cheese was typically twice the height of a single Gloucester.

Questions about Double Gloucester

What does Double Gloucester mean?
Double Gloucester means a variety of Gloucester cheese, stronger and aged for longer than single Gloucester.
What is Double Gloucester the alternative form of?
Double Gloucester is the alternative form of double Gloucester.
What part of speech is Double Gloucester?
Double Gloucester is a noun.
What is the plural of Double Gloucester?
The plural of Double Gloucester is Double Gloucesters.

Words near Double Gloucester in the dictionary

  1. double fugues
  2. double full
  3. double fulls
  4. double glazing
  5. double glazings
  6. Double Gloucester
  7. double Gloucesters
  8. double grab
  9. double grabbed
  10. double grabbing
  11. double grabs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Double Gloucester (page history and authors); double Gloucester (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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