Green cheese is a name applied to several varieties of cheese that are green in colour. The term was first used in English to mean fresh cheese, ones that were not thoroughly dried yet. The Oxford English Dictionary gives a reference from the year 1542 of the four sorts of cheese. The first sort is green cheese. It tells the reader, not green by reason of colour but for its newness, for the whey is not half pressed out of it as yet.
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