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vacherin

vacherin noun: a soft cow's-milk cheese from France and Switzerland. Also the ellipsis of vacherin glacé.

Noun

vacherin (countable and uncountable, plural vacherins)

  1. A soft cow's-milk cheese from France and Switzerland.
    • After all, the lure of endless, sensual evil is as nothing compared to a good, spoonable Vacherin.2007 March 26, Caitlin Moran, The Times
  2. (countable, dated) A cake-shaped dessert made of an almond paste shell filled with (non-frozen) double cream and topped with whipped cream.

Also used as

vacherin is also the ellipsis of vacherin glacé.

Forms of vacherin

pluralvacherins

Origin of vacherin

Borrowed from French vacherin, from Franco-Provençal [Term?]. The dessert was likely named for its resemblance to the round shape of vacherin cheese wheels.

Words formed from vacherin

Questions about vacherin

What does vacherin mean?
Vacherin means a soft cow's-milk cheese from France and Switzerland.
What part of speech is vacherin?
Vacherin is a noun.
What is the plural of vacherin?
The plural of vacherin is vacherins.

Words near vacherin in the dictionary

  1. vachanas
  2. Vachas
  3. Vachell
  4. vacher
  5. vacheries
  6. vacherin
  7. vacherin glacé
  8. vacherins
  9. vacherins glacés
  10. vachers
  11. vachery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vacherin (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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