An archaic or dialectal word for cheese, or alternately a hidden place or cache.
Related to 'cache' and possibly derived from Old French 'cace' or Latin 'caseus' (cheese). The dual meaning reflects how medieval words sometimes applied to both foodstuffs and hiding places where provisions were stored.
This word reminds us that 'cache' and 'cheese' might have more in common etymologically than we think—both were things people hid away for safekeeping in the medieval world.
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