cheese tray
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- noun
- /tʃiːz treɪ/
:
bandeja de quesos
- The restaurant offers a selection of wines to pair perfectly with their signature cheese tray.
- fruit and cheese tray
Examples
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To complete the cheese tray, I cut several loaves of fragrant homemade oatmeal bread into triangles and threw in a wheel of Jarlsberg for good measure.
Fiction book (1993) -
Use them to serve drinks, to hold silverware, or as part of a cheese tray.
Blog text (18) -
I'm taking either a cheese tray or a cookie plate to an auction this weekend and am using your trick either way.
Blog text (10) -
I go to get the Heinekens, you know, the vodka and mix, Scotch, a nice cheese tray, lay it all out.
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I handed an unsmiling Audrey a cheese tray.
Fiction book (1993) -
At the party, we displayed a beautiful cheese tray filled with various artisanal cheeses.
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She prepared a lovely cheese tray with crackers and fruit for the picnic.
Synonyms
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1.0
A flat, shallow container used to carry or hold food and dishes
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A board or tray for serving different cheeses and crackers
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cheese' (types of cheese) with 'tray' (a flat serving container); a cheese tray is literally a tray used for serving cheese. This straightforward noun–noun composition is common cross-linguistically and should be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Cheese tray comes from the simple image of cheese placed on a flat tray so people can taste different kinds. Hosts would arrange cheeses, crackers and fruit on the tray to share, so the phrase now means 'a dish for serving a selection of cheeses'.