goat's-milk cheese

A form of goat's milk cheese — cheese made from goat's milk

Meanings

noungoat's-milk cheese (countable and uncountable, plural goat's-milk cheeses)

plural goat's-milk cheeses

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of goat's milk cheese.

    (In France, this type of wine is enjoyed with goat’s-milk cheeses.)

    1977 March 3, Etienne, “Notes from L’Auberge”, in The Ithaca Journal, Ithaca, N.Y., page 6
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    On arriving in the Plaza, the simple frank inhabitants came forth from their houses, and in the Basque dialect, the Castillian language being almost generally unknown to the peasantry of the Basque Provinces, offered refreshments in the shape of Navarre wine, bread and goat’s-milk cheese, to their august visitors.

    1845 August 16, The Morning Post, number 22,372, London, page 4, column 6

    Squatted behind their serones of fruits and vegetables, their wedges of goat’s-milk cheese and cones of coarse brown sugar, or double rows of bottles of guarado, (the unfermented juice of sugar-cane) they expatiate upon the merits of their merchandise in shrill but soft-voweled Castellano that wheedles the last penny out of your purse.

    1897 November 18, Fannie Brigham Ward, “Quaint Cartago. Droll Sights and Scenes in the Oldest City of Central America. House-Keeping A La Castellano.”, in The Republican Journal, volume 69, number 46, Belfast, Me., page 3, column 2

    Even the poor, who ordinarily eat coarse bread and goat’s-milk cheese and mint picked by the roadside, must have rice for guests and for special occasions.

    1933 December 9, “Rice Cookery (Selected)”, in Fitchburg Sentinel, Fitchburg, Mass., page 4, column 3

    As soon as they are dressed, there is a large breakfast with more coffee, bread and butter, and all sorts of pickled fish and sausage and goat’s-milk cheese to put on it.

    1936 September 18, National Geographic Society, “In Rural Norway”, in Adams County Independent, volume 42, number 19, Littlestown, Pa., page ten

    When he was 13, his mother gave him a big goat’s-milk cheese and sent him trudging far over the hills to a church school to study for the priesthood, and she admonished him to be a good boy.

    1939 September 19, Lemuel F. Parton, “Who’s News Today”, in Bergen Evening Record, volume 45, number 89, Hackensack, N.J., page 22
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