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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Edam

/ēd'-əm/ · E·dam · IPA /ˈiːdæm/
01 n. A mild Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outsi…
  1. 1.
    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.