cream-cheese
A soft, rich kind of cheese, made of unskimmed milk enriched by the addition of cream; a cheese of this kind.
fig. Sometimes used as a type of extreme fastidiousness of taste, elegance of language or style.
| 1583 T. Stocker Hist. Civ. Warres Lowe C. ii. 53 b A pounde of Creame Cheese two Sous. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 65 With this Creame, to make Creame-cheese, ordinarily accustomed to be sold in Summer. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 493 An English gentleman may believe the world was made by chance, or the moon made of cream-cheese, if he pleases. 1848 Clough Bothie v, If the cream-cheeses be white, far whiter the hands that made them. c 1865 Circ. Sc. I. 355/2 Cream-cheese is the richest. |