单词 | cheese chamber |
释义 | > as lemmascheese chamber cheese chamber n. now historical a room in which cheeses are dried or stored. ΚΠ c1632 T. Fuller Observ. Shires in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 226 Cheshire for the cheesechamber, Northumberland for the colehouse. 1740 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 120 I must now..go see what's doing in the cheese-chamber and the apple-loft. 1826 Housekeeper's Mag. 1 447 The cheese..is washed in warm whey, well dried with a cloth, and placed on a drying bench, where it remains an equal length of time before it is removed to the cheese chamber. 1996 William & Mary Q. 53 74 The Widow Marble still set her cheeses in an upstairs room—the ‘cheese chamber’—of the main house. < as lemmas |
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