port saˈlut
Forms: 5 port salut, -salow, -salue, 6 -salu.
[app. a. OF. port salut, in mod.F. port de salut = L. *portus salūtis port or haven of safety.]
† 1. ‘Haven of safety’; the port or goal one is making for. Obs. rare.
| c 1407 Hoccleve Balade to Somer 22 Whethir our taille Shal soone make vs with our shippes saille To port salut. 1472–5 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 156/1 Such Citees or Tounes.., where any such Caryk, Galee or Shipp, shall happen here⁓after to make his Port salow. 1481 Botoner Tulle Old Age (Caxton) G v b, When men be vpon the riuer in to the hauen warde and to haue takyn their porte salue. 1523 Skelton Garl. Laurel 541 When at the port salu Ye fyrste aryuyd. |
2. Port Salut (pɔr saly). [f. the name of a Trappist monastery, Port du Salut (also used), in Mayenne, N.W. France, where it was first produced.] A kind of soft pressed cheese.
| 1881 J. P. Sheldon Dairy Farming xxxv. 512 Cooked, heated, and pressed cheese... Gruyères fran{cced}ais, Port du Salut, Rangiport. 1896 Long & Benson Cheese ii. 15 Camembert, Brie, Bondon, Neufchâtel, and Port du Salut, all..hail from France. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 355/2 In France the pressed varieties of cheese with hard rinds include Gruyère..and Port Salut. 1935 [see bel paese]. 1942 E. Paul Narrow St. iii. 22 Cheese was forthcoming (a Port Salut that increased my respect for the fat cook who did the daily marketing). 1951 [see make v.1 91 c (b)]. 1960 Sunday Times 17 Jan. 9/1 A full moon, the colour of Port Salut. 1966 P. V. Price France 283 There are..two sorts of cheese involved: Port du Salut is that made by the Trappist monks at Entrammes, near Laval... Other Trappists, however, and other cheese makers..are able to make and market a cheese under the name of Port Salut, which, unlike Port du Salut, is not a trademark. 1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 24 June 77/3 French Trappist monks in northern Touraine have been making Port Salut cheese for 150 years. |