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double Gloucester
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double Gloucester
n.
A smooth, firm, mild yellow cheese.
[After Gloucester.]
double Gloucester
n
(Cookery) a type of smooth orange-red cheese of mild flavour
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Noun1.double Gloucester - a smooth firm mild orange-red cheese
cheese - a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
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For at least 200 years villagers from Brockworth in the Cotswolds have been rolling a large round of Double Gloucester cheese down the one-inthree Cooper's Hill, with the first to the bottom winning the cheese.
Game for a laugh by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
Every year since 1750, competitors have thrown themselves 200 yards down Cooper's Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, chasing an 8lb wheel of Double Gloucester cheese, hoping to be the first to catch it.
WHO'S THE BIG CHEESE? by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Cheese Fact: In Coopers Hill, England, there is a spring festival that culminates in a race to catch a giant Double Gloucester cheese wheel that is rolled down a steep hill.
Voyage de Fromage: Destinations for Cheese Lovers by Lauren Van Mullem by PeterGreenberg.com / petergreenberg.com
 
 
 
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