Meaning & use
fromagerie
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Meaning
nouncountable
A shop that sells cheese, or a place where cheese is made.
Grammar: Countable: a fromagerie, two fromageries; names the business not the product.
Patterns
- a fromagerie in somewhere
- buy something at a fromagerie
We bought three kinds of goat cheese at the village fromagerie.
The small fromagerie also sells bread and wine.
She trained at a fromagerie in the mountains to learn how cheese is aged.
Word forms
| plural | fromageries |
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Common combinations
- local fromagerie
- The local fromagerie sells cheese made nearby.
- visit a fromagerie
- We plan to visit a fromagerie in Normandy.
- artisan fromagerie
- The artisan fromagerie ages its cheese in caves.
- fromagerie counter
- At the fromagerie counter you can taste before you buy.
- run a fromagerie
- They run a fromagerie that supplies top restaurants.
Synonyms and how they differ
- cheese shop
- Cheese shop is plain and unmarked, while fromagerie suggests a French or specialist, upmarket place.
- creamery
- A creamery makes butter and dairy products, not only cheese, and mostly refers to production.
- dairy
- A dairy covers milk products in general and may be a farm or factory.
- cheesemonger
- A cheesemonger is the seller of cheese, while fromagerie is the shop itself.
Word family
- fromage noun
- the French word for cheese
- fromager noun
- a French cheesemaker or cheese seller
- fromage frais noun
- a soft, fresh cheese from France
- cheese noun
- a food made from milk
Commonly confused: fromagerie or pâtisserie?
fromagerie vs pâtisserie
A pâtisserie sells pastries and cakes, whereas a fromagerie sells cheese.
Practice
We stopped at a ___ in Paris to buy several soft cheeses for the picnic.
Choose one answer.
A shop specializing in cheese is a fromagerie. A boulangerie sells bread and a boucherie sells meat, which are tempting French look-alikes.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “fromagerie”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.