swiss cheese

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   hard pale yellow cheese with many holes from Switzerland

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Questions about swiss cheese

What does swiss cheese mean?

swiss cheese means "hard pale yellow cheese with many holes from Switzerland".

Is swiss cheese a common word?

swiss 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.