A person who pares or shaves off thin slices of cheese; also a tool designed to shave thin strips from a block of cheese.
Compound of 'cheese' and 'parer' (from 'pare', from Old French 'parer' meaning to trim). The tool emerged alongside specialized cheese preparation in the Victorian era.
A quality cheese parer became a status symbol in 19th-century European households—being able to serve paper-thin, uniform cheese slices showed sophistication and refined dining taste.
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