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Roquefort

noun
1.
French blue cheese.



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"Roquefort" Quotes from Famous Books



... are to be found in Roquefort's edition of the Poesies de Marie de France; in a volume of the Nouvelles Francoises en Prose, edited by Moland and D'Hericault; and in M. Gaston Raynaud's text ...
— French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France • Marie de France

... Celery Ripe Olives Salted Pistachio Nuts Consomme, a la Royale *Halibut Turbans Roast Goose, Apple Jelly Potato Puff Mashed Turnip Endive and Roquefort Cheese Salad Coupe ...
— The Story of Crisco • Marion Harris Neil

... permitted to drink tea at all. Brown Windsor—no other soap for Mrs. Rowe, if you please. People who wanted any of the fanciful soaps of Rimmel or Piver must buy them. Brown Windsor was all she kept. Yes, she was obliged to have Gruyere—and people did ask occasionally for Roquefort; but her opinion was that the person who did not prefer a good Cheshire to any other cheese, deserved to go without any. She had been twenty-one years in Paris, and seven times only had she missed morning service on Sundays. ...
— The Cockaynes in Paris - 'Gone abroad' • Blanchard Jerrold

... 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, and Magnan. ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... scantiest breakfast—that of a dyspeptic. In the midst of such luxury, and under the eye of a well-paid butler, M. Godefroy could only eat a couple of boiled eggs and nibble a little mutton chop. The man of money trifled with dessert—took only a crumb of Roquefort—not more than two cents' worth. Then the door opened and an overdressed but charming little child—young Raoul, four years old—the son of the company director, entered the room, accompanied by his ...
— The Lost Child - 1894 • Francois Edouard Joachim Coppee



Words linked to "Roquefort" :   bleu, blue cheese



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