Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of a breed of large white beef cattle developed in France.
  • noun A semisoft French cheese made of a blend of cow's milk and goat's milk.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large white or cream-colored breed from France

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, after Charolles, a town in the Burgundy region of eastern France.]

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Examples

  • My Wonderful sister raises cattle & they raise Charolais, which is actually a better beef than Angus.

    dustbury.com » Beef: it’s what’s for decoration 2007

  • My Wonderful sister raises cattle & they raise Charolais, which is actually a better beef than Angus.

    dustbury.com » Beef: it’s what’s for decoration 2007

  • The beef cattle are a French breed called Charolais, a type Dave McClure and his sons have shown for years.

    News-Gazette.com e.p. 2010

  • Unafraid of making radical changes to an industry steeped in history and rural folklore, he is seeing traditional cattle breeds such as Charolais and Angus on the run and digital innovation to the fore.

    Australia: Here's The Beef 2007

  • Seeing the Charolais out the window reminds me of some of my travels there .... oh, I so much need to return.

    lié - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • From high in the château we live in, the view below -- a patchwork of lush pastures with their leafy borders and white Charolais cows -- is like a framed, living painting on our smooth stone wall.

    Recette / Recipe 2010

  • From high in the château we live in, the view below -- a patchwork of lush pastures with their leafy borders and white Charolais cows -- is like a framed, living painting on our smooth stone wall.

    French Word-A-Day: 2010

  • From high in the château we live in, the view below -- a patchwork of lush pastures with their leafy borders and white Charolais cows -- is like a framed, living painting on our smooth stone wall.

    lié - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Entrec te of Charolais beef with ma tre d'h tel butter, recipe Auguste Escoffier.

    How to Be a Gourmet in the Paris Stores Peter Hellman 2010

  • The message is apparently intended for people like Paul Bordovsky, a retired druggist who netted a sum " well into the six figures " after a well on his 642-acre ranch produced nearly 34,000 barrels of oil in its first 40 days before it was temporarily capped — far more than he ever made raising purebred Charolais.

    New Oil Patches Sprout Across Nation Daniel Gilbert 2010

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