blue cheese


noun

a rich cheese in which the internal mold manifests itself in blue veins: made in France especially from sheep's milk and elsewhere also from cow's milk and goat's milk.
Also bleu cheese.

Origin of blue cheese

First recorded in 1920–25

British Dictionary definitions for blue cheese

blue cheese

noun

cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue Also called (Austral and NZ): blue vein