pimento cheese

noun

: a Neufchâtel, process, cream, or occasionally cheddar cheese to which ground pimientos have been added

Examples of pimento cheese in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The deli menu includes house and Caesar salads, pasta salad, potato salad, and pimento cheese. Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 7 May 2024 The deli will also offer an assortment of breakfast sandwiches, including the biscuit sandwich, made with all-butter biscuits, molasses, and black pepper bacon or sage breakfast sausage, pimento cheese, and a sunny-side-up egg. Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 7 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for pimento cheese 

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Word History

First Known Use

1910, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pimento cheese was in 1910

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“Pimento cheese.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pimento%20cheese. Accessed 29 May. 2024.

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