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Swiss cheese

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Swiss cheese
n
(Cookery) a hard white or pale yellow cheese with holes, such as Gruyère or Emmenthal
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Noun1.Swiss cheese - hard pale yellow cheese with many holes from SwitzerlandSwiss cheese - hard pale yellow cheese with many holes from Switzerland
cheese - a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
Emmental, Emmentaler, Emmenthal, Emmenthaler - Swiss cheese with large holes
Gruyere - Swiss cheese with small holes
sapsago - a hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover
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But let us suppose that cavities exist in this otherwise universal medium, as caverns exist in the earth, or cells in a Swiss cheese.
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On earth I was a manufacturer of Imported Holes for American Swiss Cheese, and I will acknowledge that I supplied a superior article, which was in great demand.
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A hunk of Swiss cheese accurately thrown by her husband struck Mrs.
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