Crossword clues for stilton
stilton
- Blue cheese
- Dairy product in list carried by close relative
- Cheese choice
- Cheese variety
- Blue-veined cheese from England
- Crumbly English cheese
- Strong-smelling cheese
- Rich British cheese
- One of the principal English cheeses
- Lost tin (anag)
- European cheese with a Protected Designation of Origin
- Cheese with which port is traditionally served
- Blue or white English cheese
- 19 cheese
- Rich cheese
- Eponymic town of Cambridgeshire
- Strong-smelling cheese made in England
- English blue cheese
- English cheese town
- Type of cheese
- Crumbly cheese
- Waxy, white cheese
- Child with inclination to drink dairy product
- Cheese's not left, it's brought back
- Strong English cheese, originally from Leicestershire
- Strong cheese of England
- Blue or white cheese originally from Leicestershire
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stilton cheese \Stil"ton cheese"\, or Stilton \Stil"ton\, n. A peculiarly flavored unpressed cheese made from milk with cream added; -- so called from the village or parish of Stilton, England, where it was originally made. It is very rich in fat.
Thus, in the outset he was gastronomic; discussed the
dinner from the soup to the stilton.
--C. Lever.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1736, cheese made famous by a coaching inn at Stilton on the Great North Road from London, the owner being from Leicestershire, where the cheese was made. Since 1969 restricted to cheese made in Leicester, Derby, and Nottingham counties by members of the Stilton Cheese Makers Association. The place name is in Domesday Book as Stichiltone and probably means literally farmstead or village at a stile or steep ascent.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of Stilton English) (cheese)
Wikipedia
Stilton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, approximately north of Huntingdon in Huntingdonshire, a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as a historic county of England.
Usage examples of "stilton".
Stilton put a few coppers on the table and waved Cal down when he reached for his wallet.
The chairs were like bowls cut in half and mounted on splayed legs, the books resembled flattened accordions, the tables were of some grayish wood with a stony appearance and the candles looked like cylinders of Stilton cheese.
And yet when 1 sleep what reeking Stiltons, what slobbering camemberts and farting gorgonzolas come and ooze across my sleep.
There was Spanish omelette cut up in small pieces on cocktail sticks, and a huge stew, with baked potatoes, and a winter salad, and plum cake steeped in brandy and Stilton, with masses of claret and sloe gin.
Kitty Stilton chatted to her father, and as her mother gathered up plates from the first course and dished out bowls for the next, she turned to him and said, `Well?
Churchill set the bullet that had killed Walter Stilton on the left hand plate, and one of the test bullets on the other.
At the long table, dishes came and came: smoked eel, broiled turbot, veal and ham pie, quails stuffed with chestnuts, stargazy pie, capons stuffed with onions and oysters, a great smoking round of roast beef flanked by roast parsnips and potatoes and carrots, brandied plum pudding with candied peel and hard sauce, and finally a whole wheel of Stilton cheese.
In Cal's experience Stilton never abandoned anything, cold coffee, the crusts on toast, the scrapings in the bottom of the panany panhe hoovered up the lot.
Fish and chips, biscuits with Stilton and cheddar cheese, a single-malt whisky with a splash of water, and then tea provided a satisfying late dinner.
Darwin looked on with amusement, quietly but systematically helping himself to fruit, clotted cream, Stilton cheese and West Indian sweetmeats from the side table.
It had survived, a noble port, and as they drank it after their buttered eggs and deviled bones and Stilton cheese, Sir Joseph tapped the folder.
At a wine merchant's in St James's Street he sent a dozen of Hermitage to the Marshalsea, and at a grocer's in Piccadilly a great raised pie, a Stilton cheese, and some potted anchovies for relish, then he picked up Pullings at Fladong's and they drove to the Cross Keys, where a carriage had been booked.
He liked licorice and kimchee and stilton cheese and everything else that tasted strongly.
If I can raise the money to cover expenses I think I shall arrange to have a sin-eater at my funeral, in the manner of my Celtic ancestors, and also a feast for the mourners, with cold meats, Stilton cheese, fruitcake, and plenty of sherry and port.
Across the room, a thin, narrow-faced man stood at the bar, carving a hunk of Stilton cheese.