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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 and 2005 supplements.
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DUNLOP, n. Used attrib. [dʌn′lɔp]
1. The name given to a breed of cattle.Ayr. 1793 Col. Fullarton Agric. Ayr. 58:
In Cunningham . . . a breed of cattle has for more than a century been established, remarkable for the quantity and quality of their milk in proportion to their size. They have long been denominated the Dunlop breed, from the ancient family of that name, or the parish where the breed was first brought to perfection.
2. The name given to a sweet-milk cheese, formerly manufactured in Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, and Renfrewshire (Sc. 1780 in Misc. Vol. (S.H.S.) VI. 271; 1929 F. M. McNeill Scots Kitchen 213–4; Abd.9, Fif.10, Lnk.11, Ayr., Kcb.1 1941). Also Dunlap and reduced forms ‡Delap, Dulap.Sc. 1827 Scott Croftangry iv.:
But this unhappy lad . . . kenned that he was living like a ratten in a Dunlap cheese.Sc. 1829 Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) II. 314:
. . . to say naething o' tarts and flummeries, and the Dulap, Stilton, or feenal cheese — Parmesan.Lnk. 1864 J. B. Greenshields Annals Lesmahagow 278:
Sweet milk cheese, known as “Dunlop”, is the staple commodity, only one or two enterprising farmers having begun to make cheese on the “Cheddar” principle.Ayr. 1821 Galt Ann. Parish vi.:
They have, under the name of Delap-cheese, spread far and wide over the civilized world.Ayr. 1831 Loudon Encycl. Agric. 1045:
Dunlop cheese (so called from its having been first brought to the Glasgow market by a carrier who lived in the parish of Dunlop, in Ayrshire,) has been made in the district of Cunningham in Ayrshire, from time immemorial.Uls. 1993 Alan Gailey in Hugh Cheape Tools and Traditions 45:
Like Barbara Gilmore, some [Scottish seventeenth-century emigrés to Ulster] were later able to return to Scotland. She took back with her the recipe which became the basis of Dunlop cheese, commonly regarded as a distinctively Scottish product.
