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Roquefort cheese

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Roque`fort´ cheese
n.1.A highly flavored blue-molded cheese, made at Roquefort, department of Aveyron, France. It is made from milk of ewes, sometimes with cow's milk added, and is cured in caves. Improperly, a cheese made in imitation of it.


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The new duties on French Roquefort cheese were due to have been tripled last week, which has grated on nerves in France.
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