n. A soft, unripened and usually unsalted cheese made from whey, often used as a filling. [Italian, from Latin recocta, feminine past participle of recoquere, to cook again : re-, re- + coquere, to cook; see pekw- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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