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French cheese
Answer for the clue "French cheese ", 9 letters:
roquefort
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Roquefort can have one of several meanings: Roquefort (cheese) Roquefort, the mouse in Disney's The Aristocats Roquefort, the song by the Australian rock band Karnivool , featured in their debut album Themata Roquefort is the name or part of the name of ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roquefort cheese \Roque`fort" cheese\, or Roquefort \Roque`fort"\, n. A highly flavored blue-molded cheese, made at Roquefort, department of Aveyron, France. It is made from milk of ewes, sometimes with cow's milk added, and is cured in caves. Improperly, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of cheese, 1837, from the village in the southwest of France, where it originally was made. Reference to salad dressing made from this kind of cheese is from 1943.
Usage examples of roquefort.
My sweetheart's eyes gleamed with pleasure: truly Chambertin and Roquefort are excellent thinks to restore an old love and to ripen a young one.
I want a minute steak with mushrooms, whatever vegetable Tony's got that didn't come out of a can, some lettuce and tomatoes with Roquefort dressing, and coffee.
Hixie sipped a Manhattan and sampled the Brie, Camembert, Cheshire, Edam, Gorgonzola, Gouda, Gruyere, Herkimer, Liederkranz, Mozzarella, Muenster, Parmesan, Port du Salut, and Roquefort.
He took another slice of bread and lavishly smeared Roquefort cheese on it.
There was half of a cold broiled lobster, five stone-cold fried oysters, an inch jar of caviar and a wedge of Roquefort cheese.
Maybe they prefer the stuffed mushrooms, or the little Roquefort cheese morsels rolled in crushed nuts, all of which are at this very moment being offered them on silver platters by tall, smiling waiters in Aces High livery.
In the raw state they contained bitter crystals of oxide that made them inedible, but when boiled and peeled they were delicious, except that they looked like Roquefort cheese.
He waited until a curvaceous young thing had turned him down, then approached while Malcolm was looking bluer than a well-aged round of Roquefort cheese.
Below hung a pair of translucent balls, the pallid blue color of Roquefort cheese.
If Willoughby says the moon is made of blue Roquefort cheese, that means MacArthur agrees.