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edam
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun edam has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
edam, n.
A mild Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
edam, n. a round Dutch cheese, usu. pale yellow with a red rind.
Etymology
Edam in Holland
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