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roquefort
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun roquefort has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
roquefort, n.
A highly flavored blue-molded cheese, made at Roquefort , department of Aveyron, France. It is made from milk of ewes, sometimes with cow's milk added, and is cured in caves. Improperly, a cheese made in imitation of it. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
roquefort, n. propr.
1 a soft blue cheese made from ewes' milk.
2 a salad-dressing made of this.
1 a soft blue cheese made from ewes' milk.
2 a salad-dressing made of this.
Etymology
Roquefort in S. France
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