Gouda

[ gou-duh, goo-; Dutch khou-dah ]

/ ˈgaʊ də, ˈgu-; Dutch ˈxaʊ dɑ /

a city in the W Netherlands, NE of Rotterdam.

a semisoft, cream-colored cheese made in Holland from whole or partly skimmed milk.

Example sentences from the Web for gouda

His father called him and his brother back to Gouda, only to die himself soon afterwards.

Erasmus and the Age of Reformation |Johan Huizinga
After that the Edam tasted too lipsticky, like the red-paint job on its rind, and the Gouda seemed only half-hearted.

The Complete Book of Cheese |Robert Carlton Brown
Go when she would, it was always fête at Gouda manse, and she was received like a little queen.

The Cloister and the Hearth |Charles Reade
Let me gain this by dying, to be always at dear Gouda—in the green kirkyard.

The Cloister and the Hearth |Charles Reade

This is an attempt to repeat the famous feat of glass painting which had been done some twenty years before at Gouda.

Windows, A Book About Stained & Painted Glass |Lewis F. Day

Gouda

/ (ˈɡaʊdə, Dutch ˈxɔudaː) /

a town in the W Netherlands, in South Holland province: important medieval cloth trade; famous for its cheese. Pop: 72 000 (2003 est)

a large round Dutch cheese, mild and similar in taste to Edam