Definitions
Etymologies
- Named after the town of Caerphilly, Wales. (Wiktionary)
- After Caerphilly, a district of southeast Wales. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Serve with a large pack of tortilla chips, a small carton of sour cream, chopped avocado, some crumbled white cheese such as caerphilly, cheshire, wensleydale or goat's cheese, and some baked sweet potatoes if you're pulling out all thestops.”
“Do you favour white or brown toast, cheddar or caerphilly?”
“Mark Hix, perhaps anticipating a Welsh backlash, goes for caerphilly in his book British Regional Food, while Delia consigns any such concerns to the bottom of Lyn Tegid, and plumps for an equal mix of cheddar and parmesan for the Welsh Rarebit Soufflé in her Complete Cookery Course.”
“Nigel Slater reckons that caerphilly doesn't have enough of a "tang to be interesting", and I'm inclined to agree with him – the mild flavour is lost among the Worcestershire sauce, mustard and stout in Hix's recipe.”
“Nigel is gazing at pork pies and hunks of caerphilly and cheddar cheese arranged in glass counters.”
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“You crumble some caerphilly into a bowl, add a bit of milk and mash it with a fork to get a fairly thick paste.”
“Another student, Jemima Cordle, 32, is a former biochemist who started her own company making caerphilly cheese two years ago, but sold it to pursue a dream of starting a mobile dairy.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘caerphilly’.
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The Cheese Connoisseur's List of...
Names of cheeses from around the world, blatantly stolen from every source available to me.
"A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with one eye." - Jean Anthelme Brillat-S...edam, cheddar, jack, monterrey jack, mozzarella, mozzarella di bufala, mozzarella fior d..., mozarella affumicata, scamorza, parmesan, gorgonzola, emmenthal and 256 more...
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Words that have "ae" or "oe"
Add any words you know that have these letter combinations!
acoelous, cacoethes, aeschylean, aborvitae, phaeochrous, aeneous, algae, aesthetic, aerobics, daedal, vitae, minutiae and 53 more...
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National Cheese Emporium
You know....what you order when you're feeling peckish!
venezuelan beaver..., cornish yarg, tilsit, caerphilly, bel paese, red windsor, stilton, ementhal, gruyere, norweigan jarlsburg, lipta, lancashire and 33 more...
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gorgonglare's list
the best
zeppelin, ion, laconic, serendipity, cataract, saturnine, syzygy, cinnabar, bistro, lithium, paroxysm, scion and 694 more...
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hernesheir a.k.a. "the crumblies" - a hard white cheese originally from near Caerphilly, Wales, but now produced elsewhere in England. Oct 1, 2009