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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This

Neuf⋅châ⋅tel

[noo-shuh-tel, nyoo-, noo-shuh-tel, nyoo-; Fr. nœ-shah-tel]
–noun
a soft, white cheese similar to cream cheese, made from whole or partly skimmed milk in Neufchâtel, a town in N France.
Also called Neufchâtel cheese.


Origin:
1860–65
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Neuf·châ·tel     (nōō'shə-těl', nɶ'shä-)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A soft white cheese made from cow's milk.

[After Neufchâtel, a town of northeast France.]
Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Neufchatel 
"type of soft, white cheese," c.1865, from Neufchâtel, small town in Normandy where it was first made.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Neufchatel

Neuf`ch[^a]`tel"\, n. A kind of soft sweet-milk cheese; -- so called from Neufch[^a]tel-en-Bray in France.

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