edam

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: E=dam

CIDE DICTIONARY

edam, n. 

 A mild Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

edam, n. a round Dutch cheese, usu. pale yellow with a red rind.

Etymology

Edam in Holland