pro·vo·lo·ne (pr  v -l n )n. A hard, usually smoked Italian cheese. [Italian, augmentative of provola, a kind of cheese.] |
provolone [ˌprəʊvəˈləʊnɪ]
n
(Cookery) a mellow, pale yellow, soft, and sometimes smoked cheese, made of cow's milk: usually moulded in the shape of a pear
[Italian, from provola, apparently from Medieval Latin probula cheese made from buffalo milk]
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