cheese rind
- noun
- /tʃiːz raɪnd/
:
corteza de queso
- To enhance the soup, he always throws in a cheese rind during cooking.
Examples
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When making risotto, save some cheese rinds to add a rich taste as it simmers.
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She is laughing now at the cheese rind.
Fiction book (2002) -
You save all of your vegetable scraps, onion skins, pancetta fat, and cheese rinds and boil them down for greasy broth.
Blog text (11) -
After making the pasta, she added a cheese rind to the sauce for extra flavor.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cheese' (a dairy product) with 'rind' (a tough outer covering); as a simple noun+noun compound its sense follows normal compositional rules. This concept and construction are cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand 'cheese rind'.
Etymology
Cheese rind comes from the simple image of a hard rind or 'skin' that forms on the outside of cheese as it ages, like a crust on the surface. That's why cheese rind means the firm outer layer that protects the soft inside and adds flavour.
