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Gorgonzola [gawr-guh n-zoh-luh] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a strongly flavored, semisoft variety of Italian milk cheese veined with mold.
Origin of Gorgonzola First recorded in 1875–80; after Gorgonzola, Italy, a village near Milan, where it was first producedAlso called Gorgonzola cheese. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for gorgonzola Contemporary Examples of gorgonzola
Crumble the Gorgonzola into a small bowl and mash with a fork.
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Historical Examples of gorgonzola
No complete study of the ripening of Gorgonzola has been made.
Charles Thom and Walter Warner Fisk
Gorgonzola,” repeated Renzo, as if to fix it in his memory, “is it far from here?
Alessandro Manzoni
Barn produces a light coloured wine, a specialty of the country, and an acquired taste like olives and Gorgonzola cheese.
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He had learned its name from a traveller who had mentioned it, as the first village on his road to Gorgonzola.
Alessandro Manzoni
One of his songs, he had said, that about the Gorgonzola Cheese, never failed to create merriment.
Oliver Onions
British Dictionary definitions for gorgonzola Gorgonzola Gorgonzola cheese noun
- a semihard blue-veined cheese of sharp flavour, made from pressed milk
Word Origin for Gorgonzola C19: named after Gorgonzola, Italian town where it originated Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for gorgonzola
type of blue cheese, 1878, named for Gorgonzola, village near Milan where it first was made.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
