blue cheese
noun
a rich cheese in which the internal mold manifests itself in blue veins: made in France especially from sheep's milk and elsewhere also from cow's milk and goat's milk.
Origin of blue cheese
1First recorded in 1920–25
- Also bleu cheese.
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British Dictionary definitions for blue cheese
blue cheese
noun
cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue: Also called (Austral and NZ): blue vein
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