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stilton

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Stil⋅ton

[stil-tn]
Trademark.
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
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Stil·ton   (stĭl'tən)   
n.  A rich waxy cheese with a blue-green mold and a wrinkled rind.

[After Stilton, a village of east-central England.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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