fromage

1. (uncommon) Synonym of cheese.Examples: "It will be necessary to premise, that there is but little difference in the manner of making fromages; they only vary in the taste; so that, by recurring to this number, it will be impossible ever to commit a mistake.[…]Continue to whip it over ice, till you perceive that the isinglass is well melted and blended with the mixture; then put the fromage into a mould, round which you heap a large quantity of ice with salt.[…]N. B.—Fromages require but very little isinglass.[…]The author here closes the list of creams and fromages, although their number is immense."; "How cheerful and contented they were in the Bow over the meals which Mrs. Crichton viewed with such pity and contempt,—the bouilli, the salad, the fragrant coffee finely concocted, the home-made bread, the thick preserves, the fromage still of goats’ milk."; "He went straight through the bill of fare, omitting nothing, not even the fromage, which disagreed with him generally,[…]"Synonyms: cheesecountableuncommonuncountable