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  • noun A supple, moist cheese produced in Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England.

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Examples

  • Very British, very dark, and very cheesy (as in 'Wensleydale: Crackin' Cheese, Grommit! ').

    Wallace and Grommet Jonathan 2005

  • Very British, very dark, and very cheesy (as in 'Wensleydale: Crackin' Cheese, Grommit! ').

    Archive 2005-09-01 Jonathan 2005

  • Then there is your cheese of Wensleydale, which is made in Wensleydale, and your little Swiss cheese, which is soft and creamy and eaten with sugar, and there is your Cheshire cheese and your little Cornish cheese, whose name escapes me, and your huge round cheese out of the Midlands, as big as a fort whose name I never heard.

    First and Last Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • Until recently, I could never put my finger on the root of my aversion – after all, I love cake, and I love cheese, and, if we're talking Wensleydale and fruit cake, I even like them together – until Paul Daniels came up in conversation no, I'm not sure, either.

    How to cook perfect cheesecake 2011

  • However I'm currently cleansing my palette by finishing off my festival photography show (all will be revealed eventually) and by making a set of classic, plain pots and bowls in undyed British fleeces and yarns - Black Welsh, Blue Faced Leicester, North Ronaldsay and Jacob sheep, possibly some Wensleydale too.

    Archive 2009-06-01 MadeleineS 2009

  • However I'm currently cleansing my palette by finishing off my festival photography show (all will be revealed eventually) and by making a set of classic, plain pots and bowls in undyed British fleeces and yarns - Black Welsh, Blue Faced Leicester, North Ronaldsay and Jacob sheep, possibly some Wensleydale too.

    Imaginary Invertebrates Galore! MadeleineS 2009

  • It looks a bit like raw Wensleydale cheese but it doesn't smell.

    Kew Gardens and science experiments The List Writer 2009

  • These two characters are crackers, they are mad, their lives revolve around inventions, cheese particularly Wensleydale and tea- but in some sense they are the essense of the whole of Western civilisation.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Civilisation isn't just Michelangelo and Machiavelli, its Wallace and his efforts to get to the moon, its loving Wensleydale and its a dog knitting in a chair and rats with shades over their eyes, its merry eccentricity which is a value all to itself.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • It looks a bit like raw Wensleydale cheese but it doesn't smell.

    Archive 2009-08-01 The List Writer 2009

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