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   cheese

   /tʃiːz/

   noun

   • 1. a food made from the pressed curds of milk, firm and elastic or soft and semi-liquid in texture: "grated cheese"
   • ▪ a complete cake of cheese with its rind: "the cheeses are trimmed and wrapped in sterilized muslin"
   • ▪ a conserve having the consistency of soft cheese: British "lemon cheese"
   • ▪ a round, flat object resembling a cake of cheese, such as the heavy flat wooden disc used in skittles and other games.
   • 2. the quality of being too obviously sentimental: informal "the conversations tend too far towards cheese"

   Word Origin Old Englishcēse, cȳse, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch kaas and German Käse; from Latin caseus.

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