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Definition of Fontina
1. an Italian cheese [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fontina
Literary usage of Fontina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Peep at the Pixies: Or, Legends of the West by Hablot Knight Browne, Bray (Anna Eliza) (1854)
"fontina, fontina, who is fontina?" whispered many voices in the hall. " The spirit
of the pool," said Mabel; "the Pixy spirit, and a most fearful one. ..."
2. Bibliotheca Chemica: A Catalogue of the Alchemical, Chemical and by John II Ferguson (1906)
"... Latin de fontina' (!) a perfectly well-known physician of Halle in the sixteenth
century, who appears to have ilso prosecuted alchemical researches, ..."
3. Plantæ Rariores in Hibernia Inventæ Or, Habitats of Smoe Plants, Rather by Walter Wade (1804)
"fontina'LIS fecun'da, tree fontinalis. C. Very frequently on trees in orchards.—On
trees near Kilcock; flowering very late in the ..."
4. The Valley of Aosta: A Descriptive and Historical Sketch of an Alpine Valley by Felice Giovanni Ferrero (1910)
"fontina deserves as great a fame and as wide a success as Parmesan cheese, the
making of which was once suggested to the ..."
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