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Roquefort   Listen
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Roquefort, Roquefort cheese  n.  A highly flavored blue-molded cheese, made at Roquefort, department of Aveyron, France. It is made from milk of ewes, sometimes with cow's milk added, and is cured in caves. Improperly, a cheese made in imitation of it.






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"Roquefort" Quotes from Famous Books



... Avignon had its assassins, as Marseilles had had them, and as Nimes was about to have them; for some days all Avignon shuddered at the names of five men—Pointu, Farges, Roquefort, Naudaud, ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... found numerous fragments, sometimes very bulky, of undigested caseine. In most cases this caseine suffers more or less decomposition in the alimentary canal, which gives to the feces a tainted odor recalling that of putrid Roquefort cheese. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 • Various



Words linked to "Roquefort" :   blue cheese, Roquefort dressing



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