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sapsago

[ sap-sey-goh, sap-suh-goh ]

noun

  1. a strong, hard, usually green cheese of Swiss origin, made with sour skim milk and sweet clover.


sapsago

/ ˈsæpsəˌɡəʊ /

noun

  1. a hard greenish Swiss cheese made with sour skimmed milk and coloured and flavoured with clover
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sapsago1

1840–50, Americanism; alteration of German Schabziger, Schabzieger, equivalent to schab ( en ) to grate + Zi ( e ) ger a kind of cheese
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sapsago1

C19: changed from German Schabziger, from schaben to grate + dialect Ziger a kind of cheese
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Example Sentences

Sapsago, sap′sā-gō, n. a greenish Swiss cheese.

Kreuterkäse, Herb Cheese Switzerland Hard, grating cheese flavored with herbs; like Sapsago or Grunkäse.

Sapsago has its own seduction, derived from the clover-leaf powder with which the curd is mixed and which gives it its haunting flavor and spring-like sage-green color.

Good when overlaid with cheese butter of contrasting piquance, say one mixed with Sapsago.

The imported but still cheap green Sapsago is not to be forgotten when mixing your own cheese butter.

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