bleu
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7.4
- noun
- /blu/
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queso azul
- It was tender and came pink, as requested, and was finished with a bleu cheese sauce that was eventually mopped off the plate entirely.
- bleu cheese
- cordon bleu
- chicken cordon bleu
Examples
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I am always looking for that perfect chunk of ground meat with bleu cheese and a good spicy mustard.
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I will have the salad with bleu cheese... and no bacon, please.
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- The only thing that comes close is the bleu cheese they give you with the wings.
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I will have a Cobb salad, no bleu cheese.
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You see, the wings are spicy, and the bleu cheese cools them off just so.
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A preliminary menu featured a $4 peanut butter-and-raspberry jelly sandwich (with the option to add bacon, banana, or bleu cheese) for $1 each.
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Add some mesclun, grilled chicken, bleu cheese crumble, and raspberry vinaigrette, and now you've got something there.
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Other menu items, like the pear and bleu cheese salad, as well as the decor, reveal Tuckerbox's true identity as a 30-something hipster.
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A treat that entails fried chicken tenders slathered in butter, hot sauce, and bleu cheese; no trip to Buffalo is complete without tasting this local delicacy.
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I will have the salad with bleu cheese and no bacon, please.
Synonyms
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2.8
A cheese with blue or green veins and a strong flavor
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4.4
A strong blue cheese from Denmark with a sharp, tangy taste
Idioms
Compounds
- Archaic
A blue cosmetic stick used in the past to draw veins on pale skin
How Strong
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bleu comes from French and means 'blue', the same word as English blue, because the cheese has blue-green mold running through it. That's why bleu is used for cheese with blue-green mold and a strong taste today.