Definition of "blue cheese" []

• A semisoft cheese made of cow's milk and having a greenish-blue mold and strong flavor. Also called bleu cheese. (noun)

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• "Lots of cheeses are naturally moldy — Camembert and blue cheese get their flavor from molds, Penicillium camemberti and P. roqueforti, to be exact."
• "Malevolently ladling the blue cheese at eye level."
• "They had a fine Brie, and good black olives with their drinks; then minestrone; then veau poêlé and brown rice and asparagus and a salad of spinach, avocado, and mushrooms with blue cheese dressing; then chilled grapes and melon."