fromage
fromage — noun
1. a smooth, mild dessert cheese with the texture of thick yogurt, usually mixed wi
a smooth, mild dessert cheese with the texture of thick yogurt, usually mixed with fruit or sugar; the word is borrowed from French, where it simply means 'cheese'.
Lan picked up a small pot of strawberry fromage for her daughter's lunchbox.
compound: strawberry fromage as a packaged dessert
The supermarket's chilled aisle had three flavours of fromage next to the yogurts.
context: chilled aisle near yogurts hints at the product type
Christopher stirred honey into a bowl of plain fromage for breakfast.
After dinner, Kian's grandmother served homemade fromage with fresh raspberries.
The recipe asks for half a cup of low-fat fromage instead of cream.
- fromage frais
the full form; identical meaning, slightly more formal on packaging
- quark
a similar soft, fresh cheese popular in German-speaking countries
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Almost always seen in British English as the short form of 'fromage frais'. In French the same word means cheese in general, but the English borrowing is narrowly restricted to this soft dessert-style cheese.