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.

blue cheese

cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue Also called (Austral and NZ)blue vein

First recorded in 1920–25

Serve either dish with asparagus or a green salad tossed with plenty of Roquefort or blue cheese.

Crumble over the salad some Blue cheese and toss everything thoroughly, with plenty of French dressing.

Another Blue cheese of sheep milk from Languedoc, using the royal Roquefort name.

This white form of England's royal blue cheese lacks the aristocratic veins that are really as green as Ireland's flag.

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