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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: mild white cheese made from curds of soured skim milk [syn: cottage cheese, pot cheese, farm cheese, farmer's cheese]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1848 a bland soft white cheese made from the curds of skim milk — called also Dutch cheese, pot cheese, smearcase

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cottage Cot"tage (k?t"t?j; 48), n. [From Cot a cottage.] A small house; a cot; a hut. Note: The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size. Cottage allotment. See under Alloment. [Eng.] Cottage cheese, the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Cottage cheese is a soft, white, lumpy cheese made from sour milk.