Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a rind or outer coat: occurring chiefly in composition with a descriptive adjective: as, smooth-rinded trees.

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  • adjective having a rind (hard, tough outer layer)

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Examples

  • Well, rinded ripe cheese may take an adult palate; we'll get there eventually and I was so happy the kids were game about trying a new taste.

    Linda Novick O'Keefe: Octoberliscious Linda Novick O'Keefe 2011

  • Well, rinded ripe cheese may take an adult palate; we'll get there eventually and I was so happy the kids were game about trying a new taste.

    Linda Novick O'Keefe: Octoberliscious Linda Novick O'Keefe 2011

  • Well, rinded ripe cheese may take an adult palate; we'll get there eventually and I was so happy the kids were game about trying a new taste.

    Linda Novick O'Keefe: Octoberliscious Linda Novick O'Keefe 2011

  • Woodcock Farm, which was gearing up to start the season's milking when I visited — and was therefore overrun with adorable, bleating lambs — makes and ages several kinds of farmstead cheese, including a semi-hard buttery cheese known as Weston Wheel and a softer, rinded Camembert-style cheese.

    American Cheese Grows Up 2010

  • Many travelers grow nostalgic for the flavors of their journey, whether that be the signature creaminess of Apulia's burrata, or the steaming, stinky funk of Amsterdam's red...rinded Gouda.

    Thrillist: Taberna: An Expat Smuggles Home Authentic Spanish Grub Thrillist 2010

  • And in requital of these tokens from the treasure-house of thy bounty, behold we have sent thee a Nubian slave, named Zohauk, of whom judge not by his complexion, according to the foolish ones of the earth, in respect the dark-rinded fruit hath the most exquisite flavour.

    The Talisman 2008

  • A natural rinded blue cheese called Baileyhazen Blue (ph)

    CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2005 2005

  • The tankard arrived with a cracked green plate holding a shapeless lump of white-rinded cheese only slightly smaller than Silk's head.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • The tankard arrived with a cracked green plate holding a shapeless lump of white-rinded cheese only slightly smaller than Silk's head.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • He rose and went to the kitchen area of the cavern where he scooped a huge green-rinded fruit from a tank set in the wall.

    Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979

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