Gloucester
(ˈglɒstə(r))
The name of an English county; hence ellipt., with prefixes single-, double-, the name of a cheese made there, seldom in full Gloucester cheese.
| 1802 Lamb Let. to Coleridge 4 Nov., If you find the Miltons in certain parts..soiled with a crumb of right Gloucester..look to that passage more especially. 1816 Times 25 Jan., Distinguish between..Gloucester and Double Gloucester. 1836 E. Howard R. Reefer viii, An oblong..yellow substance..known among the initiated as single Gloucester. 1838 Dickens O. Twist xxxix, Pound of best fresh; piece of double Glo'ster. 1871 M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. I. ii. 57 Home-made bread and double Gloucester cheese. |