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fromage

fromage

4 7.9
A French word for cheese often used in English menus for French cheeses
  • noun
  • /frəˈmɑʒ/
  • Specialized
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  • The cooking class focused on different types of fromage, teaching us how to incorporate them into traditional French dishes.
  • fromage blanc
  • fromage, cheese

Examples

  • For dessert, we enjoyed a selection of fromage paired with fresh fruits and honey.

  • At the gourmet restaurant, the chef presented an exquisite platter of fromage from various regions of France.

  • - Wow, that was a fine fromage.

    Valiant (2005)

  • The omelet with fromage et champignons.

    I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)

  • Two kinds of sandwiches were indicated: sandwich poisson and sandwich fromage.

    Academic text (1990)

  • I saw Jay make the tart, topping the colorful fruit with caramelized onions and fromage blanc.

    Blog text (1)

Synonyms

cheese
vsfromage
∞ 1.0

A solid food made from milk that is pressed and often aged

is the French term sometimes used in English in culinary contexts

Compounds

grand fromage
  • Informal
1 8.9

An important person in charge who people call jokingly

Surface Forms

fromage singular
fromages plural

Etymology

Fromage is the French word for cheese and comes from the old Latin formaticum, from forma meaning 'shape', the same as the English word form. Cheese was often pressed into a mold and so was called a 'shaped' food, which is why fromage means cheese and English sometimes uses fromage to name French cheeses.