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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Dutch cheese | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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touto. The English have applied the name especially to the Germanic people living nearest them, the Hollanders. Cf. {Derrick}, {Teutonic}.] Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants. {Dutch auction}. See under {Auction}. {Dutch cheese}, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk. {Dutch clinker}, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape. {Dutch clover} (Bot.), common white clover ({Trifolium repens}), the seed of which was largely imported into England from Holland. {Dutch concert}, a so-called concert in which all the singers sing at the same time different songs. [Slang] {Dutch courage}, the courage of partial intoxication. [Slang] --Marryat. {Dutch door}, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, while the upper part remains open. {Dutch foil}, {Dutch leaf}, [or] {Dutch gold}, a kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also {Dutch mineral}, {Dutch metal}, {brass foil}, and {bronze leaf}. {Dutch liquid} (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid, {C2H4Cl2}, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or olefiant gas; -- called also {Dutch oil}. It is so called because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four Hollandish chemists. See {Ethylene}, and {Olefiant}. | |
