cheshire cheese

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   a mild yellow English cheese with a crumbly texture

   Broadercheese

Questions about cheshire cheese

What does cheshire cheese mean?

cheshire cheese means "a mild yellow English cheese with a crumbly texture".

Is cheshire cheese a common word?

cheshire cheese is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.