資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Edam \E"dam\, n., or Edam cheese \Edam cheese\
   A 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.