goat's cheese

goat's cheese

English

Alternative forms

• goat cheese (North America)

Noun

goat′s cheese (plural goat's cheeses)

1. (chiefly Britain) Any cheese made from goat's milk.
   • 1905, United States Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry‎, page 340:

     […] it may easily become so to an enlarged extent when goat′s cheese shall be offered in our markets.

   • 2002, New Statesman, Volume 131, Issues 4577-4585, page 47,

     On the other hand, goat′s cheeses made by the British equivalents of Mme Blondeau, though you feel you ought to like them, never seem as inspired as their French counterparts.

   • 2007, Yvonne Short, Conservation Corporation Africa, A Kitchen Safari: Stories & Recipes from the African Wilderness, page 42,

     Place goat′s cheese parcels alongsise the roast tomatoes

   • 2010, Amelia Thomas, Michael Kohn, Miriam Raphael, Dan Savery Raz, Israel & the Palestinian Territories, Lonely Planet, page 164,

     Shai Seltzer, Israel′s most famous goat′s cheese maker, emerged wearing a white frock and thick white beard, an arrangement that made him appear like Charlton Heston when he played Moses in The Ten Commandments.

Translations

cheese made from goat's milk

French: chèvre (fr) m Icelandic: geitaostur m

Italian: formaggio caprino m, formaggio di capra m

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