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Coutances cheese

double-cream cow's milk cheese

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ177886 ↗
Source-derived summary

Le Coutances is a French double-cream cow's milk cheese from the town of Coutances. It has a thin, bloomy rind and a rich, intense flavour. It is produced by the French food company Bongrain and comes in 200-gram cylinders of 7.5 cm diameter and 4.5 cm thickness.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Coutances cheese” is double-cream cow's milk cheese. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Coutances, cheese and double-cream, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 47-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Coutances, cheese and double-cream is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q177886. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Coutances cheese” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.