bleu cheese dressing
- noun
- /bluː tʃiːz ˈdrɛsɪŋ/
:
aderezo de queso azul
- The salad was topped with a rich and creamy bleu cheese dressing that added a delightful tang.
Examples
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For the party, we served fresh vegetables with homemade bleu cheese dressing for dipping.
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Sure, there are those pesky, yet persistent rumors that The W was possibly a Nazi and that the only way he really liked children was crispy and with a side of bleu cheese dressing.
Blog text (22) -
She drizzled bleu cheese dressing over her mixed greens, enhancing the flavors of the salad.
Synonyms
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1.0
A cold sauce like oil and vinegar or ranch that adds flavor to fresh vegetables
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2.8
A creamy sauce that has blue cheese and mayonnaise or sour cream
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5.9
Salad dressing made with vinaigrette and crumbled Roquefort blue cheese
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: a salad 'dressing' made from 'cheese' of the 'bleu' (blue/blue-mould) variety. The noun-noun modifier pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, and even if the French spelling 'bleu' is slightly non-standard in English, a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the intended dressing made with blue cheese.
Etymology
The noun bleu cheese dressing names a salad dressing made with bits of bleu cheese, which has blue veins and a strong, sharp taste. So the name simply means 'a creamy salad sauce made with blue cheese'.