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A mild, yellow Dutch cheese, pressed into balls and usually covered with red wax.

Any of several types of smooth hard cheese varying in flavor from mild to extra sharp.

A mild Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; - so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.

A cheese styled after the Cheddar cheese made in Cheddar.

Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls encased in a red covering

(slang) Money, cash, currency.

(cheese making) To cut and press cheese so as to remove the whey and leave drier curds.

Of or pertaining to, or made at, Cheddar, in England; as, Cheddar cheese.

Hard smooth-textured cheese