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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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A round of Double Gloucester cheese is rolled from the top of Cooper's Hill, competitors race down the hill after the rolling cheese and the first person over the finish line at the bottom wins -- you guessed it -- the cheese.
The event has taken place on Cooper's Hill for maybe hundreds of years, and competitors risk life and limb tumbling down the 90m course for the highly-coveted prize - a round 7lb Double Gloucester cheese.
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.
 
 
 
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