Ermite

/ ˈɜːmaɪt /

noun

1. a salty blue cheese made in Quebec, Canada

Word History and Origins

Origin of Ermite¹

via Canadian French from French ermite hermit, the cheese being made originally by monks

Example Sentences

It's not overly posh—it's actually quite simple, but it's the real thing. 2bis place du Puits de l'Ermite; mosquee-de-paris.org Louis Wong 36, co-designer of French fashion label A.P.C.

From Wall Street Journal

The word “hermit” is an adaptation through the O. Fr. ermite or hermite, from the Lat. form, eremite, of the Gr. ἐρεμίτης, a solitary, from ἐρημία, a desert.

From Project Gutenberg

There were, moreover, the Dutch freebooters, such as Van Noorte, de Werte, Spilsbergen, and others, as Jaques l'Ermite, François l'Ollonais, and Bartolomew Portugues, who ransacked and burned every town which failed to resist their fierce onslaughts, from the Gulf of Darien in the north all round the coast to the Pacific Ocean on the west.

From Project Gutenberg

Près des tendres amans S'élève une chapelle, L'Ermite qu'on appelle, Bénit leurs doux sermens Venez en ce saint lieu, Amans du voisinage, Faire un pelerinage A la Mère de Dieu!

From Project Gutenberg

The boy was within an ace of bring kicked out of doors, when his troubles reached the ears of a literary tenant of the house: this was no other than Monsieur de Jouy, a member of the French Academy, and quite famous in his day for "L'Ermite de la Chaussée d'Antin," and a tragedy, "Sylla," which Talma's genius threw such beams upon as made it radiant, and for an imprisonment for political offences, a condiment without which French reputations seem to lack savor.

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