goat cheese

• goat's cheese (UK, Australia)
• goat-cheese

From Middle English gate cuse.

goat cheese (countable and uncountable, plural goat cheeses)

1. Any cheese produced using goat milk.

   Synonym: chèvre

   • 1947, Ruth McKenney, The Loud Red Patrick, page 70:

     The man who sold it to him said goats were extremely profitable; he swore that Mr. Sokolat would have a nice goat-cheese business in no time at all.

• The form goat's cheese is preferred in the UK and Australia.