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Brie

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Brie  (br)
n.
A mold-ripened, whole-milk cheese with a whitish rind and a soft, light yellow center.
[After Brie, a region of northern France.]
Brie [bree]
Noun
a soft creamy white cheese [Brie, region in N France]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.BrieBrie - soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert
cheese - a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
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One must eat every day, and the finest Alexandrine verses are not worth a bit of Brie cheese.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
The meal was to finish with an enormous fromage de Brie, which stood near the window and added fragrant odours to all the others which filled the studio.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
It might have been a little corner of Brie, so hidden away in a great fold of the land, that at first sight its existence would not be suspected between the little town and the mountains that closed the country round.
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