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a rich, waxy, white cheese, veined with mold: made principally in England.
Also called Stilton cheese.
Origin:
1730–40; after Stilton, England, where it was first sold
1730–40; after Stilton, England, where it was first sold
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Stilton
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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Stilton
1736, cheese made famous by a coaching inn at Stilton (then Hunts., now Cambs.) on the Great North Road from London, the owner being from Belvoir, Leicestershire, where it was made. Since 1969 restricted to cheese made in Leicester, Derby, and Nottingham counties by members of the Stilton Cheese Makers
EXPANDAssociation. The place name is in Domesday Book as Stichiltone and probably means lit. "farmstead or village at a stile or steep ascent."
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