Edam \E"dam\, n., or Edam cheese \Edam cheese\
A mild Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor,
made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually
colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of
Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever
made.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Edam
noun1: mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls encased in a red covering
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