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Cheddar|ˈtʃɛdə(r)|
Also 7 Cheder, 8 Chadder, 9 Chedder.
a. The name of a village near the Mendip hills in Somerset. Hence Cheddar cheese (or contextually Cheddar): see quotations.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Somerset (1662) 18 The worst fault of Chedder Cheese is, they are so few and dear. 1684A. Behn Bajazet to Gloriana, Whose composition was like Cheder-Cheese, (In whose production all the Town agrees). 1721Bailey, Cheddar or Chadder..the most noted place in all England for making large, fine, rich, and pleasant cheese; for which purpose all the milk of the town cows is brought every day into one common room, where proper persons are appointed to receive it, and set down every person's quantity in a book kept for that purpose, which is put all together, and one common cheese made with it. 1879Echo 18 Oct. 1/5 Fears that the makers of American cheese..would oust our home Cheddars from the position of supremacy they had so long held. 1951Good Housek. Home Encycl. 398/1 Cheddar Cheese... The name is now given to any cheese which undergoes the special ‘cheddaring’ process, regardless of where it is made.
b. attrib. and Comb., Cheddar-club, a club formed by dairies for the purpose of making Cheddar cheese; Cheddar letter (humorous), a letter to which a number of persons contribute each a paragraph, as a Cheddar cheese is made by the contributions of several dairies.
1666Pol. Ballads (1860) I. 181 As the Cheddar clubs dairy to th' incorporate cheese. 1726Bolingbroke in Swift's Lett. 22 Sept., I wrote the other day the first paragraph of that Cheddar letter which is preparing for you.
c. Cheddar Pink. A pink with solitary flowers of a pale rose colour (Dianthus cæsius), found on the limestone cliffs at Cheddar.
1843Babington Brit. Bot. 41 On limestone cliffs at Cheddar, Som... Cheddar Pink. 1959Chambers's Encycl. X. 737/1 Cheddar pink (D. gratianopolitanus). |