Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A soft white cheese made of cream and milk.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of soft rich cheese prepared from curd made with new or unskimmed milk and an added quantity of cream, the curd being placed in a cloth and allowed to drain without pressure; also, any cheese made with an extra proportion of cream.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun countable and uncountable A soft, mild-tasting, white cheese that comes from cows milk.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun soft unripened cheese made of sweet milk and cream

Etymologies

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Named after the cream the cheese was made from.

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    April 14, 2008

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