Semihard; skim; blue-veined; made of all three milks: cow, goat and sheep.

Soft; whole milk; originally goat, now cow; made throughout the Rhone Valley.

In Ireland the following folk-beliefs obtain regarding the ass and the cow:-

The goosey-gander stood in the doorway and looked into the cow shed.

All the cussedness of the bovine race is centred in the cow.