Cheddar cheese

Cheddar cheese (countable and uncountable, plural Cheddar cheeses)

1. A variety of hard, pale yellow cheese originally produced in the region around Cheddar in Somerset, England.
   • 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 253:

     Hundreds of examples remain, still following the same general pattern—maroon, green or chocolate brown, for example, from ground to waist level, then a stale Cheddar cheese shade of cream above.

2. Any similar cheese made anywhere in the world.

• Cheddar (shortening from "Cheddar cheese" by dropping "cheese")
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