Also strachino. [It. stracchino adj. and sb., designating ‘an excellent and very soft kind of cheese.’] Stracchino cheese, a variety of cheese made in the north of Italy.
1832. G. Downes, Lett. Cont. Countries, I. 503. The atmosphere of this place is saturated with the odour of stracchino cheese, the village being crowded with manufactories of it. It is softer than cream cheese, and the taste is better than the smell, which is rank and oppressive.
1857. Dickens, Dorrit, I. i. He gets … white bread, strachino cheese, and good wine by it.
1880. Encycl. Brit., XIII. 452/1.
