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Parmesan, a. and n.|pɑːmɪˈzæn|
Forms: 6 parmeson, parmasen, -zen, -sine, -sian, 7 parmezan, parmazan, -zine, parmisan, 7–9 parmasan, 8 -zene, 7– parmesan; also 7 parmesant, (-is-, -iz-), parmasent, (permoysaunt).
[a. F. parmesan, It. parmegiano, f. Parma.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to Parma, a city and province (formerly a duchy) of Northern Italy; esp. applied to a celebrated cheese made there and elsewhere in North Italy.
1519W. Horman Vulg. xvii, Ye shall eate parmeson chese. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 328 It becomes firm as Parmasan cheese. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. iv. xix. (1886) 155 In my snuff-box I carry a piece of Parmesan cheese..very nutritious. 1885[see Edam]. 1946G. Millar Horned Pigeon iii. 47 Denis Patchett..stole a large lump of Parmesan cheese from one of our guards.
B. n.
1. Parmesan cheese: see A.
1556–68Withals Dict. 49 b/1 Parmeson, caseus parmensis. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 147 b, The best Cheeses are counted the Parmasines. 1621–3Middleton & Rowley Changeling i. ii, A mouse that spoiled him a parmesant. 1633Ford 'Tis Pity i. iv, He loved her almost as well as he loved parmasent. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. i. Wks. 1716 III. 26 Whilst Men live like Rats and Mice, only to eat Parmazene, and run squeaking up and down. 1842E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 84, I mean to take down a Thucydides, to feed on: like a whole Parmesan. 1876[see Brie]. 1960[see cannelloni n. pl.]. 1971Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 28 Mar. 39/2 Parmesan is a cheese with remarkable keeping qualities.
†2. Some Italian fashion of drinking. Obs.
1606Dekker Sev. Sinnes i. (Arb.) 12 Drunke, according to all the learned rules of Drunkennes, as Vpsy-Freeze, Crambo, Parmizant. 1617T. Young Eng. Bane D j b, [To] quaffe Vpsey-freese crosse, Bowse in Permoysaunt, in Pimlico, in Crambo.
†3. The duchy or territory of Parma. Obs.
1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3822/1 Some of our Men..being seized in the Parmesan. 1707Ibid. No. 4396/1 Those Troops which lie in the Mantuan and Parmesan. |