affinage
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affinage (uncountable)
- The aging of cheese as part of its manufacture.
- 2007 October 7, Ray Rivera, “Tours Venture Into Forbidden, or Merely Hidden, Territory”, in New York Times[1]:
- They learned about affinage, the art of aging cheese to pungent perfection, and toured underground cheese caves at Murray’s Cheese in Greenwich Village.
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affinage m (plural affinages)
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Further reading edit
- “affinage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.