crème brûlée

• creme brulee, crème brulée

Unadapted borrowing from French crème brûlée (literally “burnt cream”).

• IPA^(key): /kɹɛm bɹuˈleɪ/

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crème brûlée (countable and uncountable, plural crème brûlées or crèmes brûlées or crèmes brûlée)

2. A dessert of custard, covered by a brittle layer of browned sugar.

   Synonyms: brûlée, burnt cream, Cambridge cream, Trinity cream

   • 2011 December 18, Jay Rayner, “Restaurant review: Aurelia”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 August 2022:

     A crème brûlée into which had been blitzed those Provençal iced-marzipan biscuits called "calisson" was a crème brûlée adulterated.

• Concerning plural forms: crèmes brûlées follows the French plural, which requires that the adjective (brûlée(s) (“burnt”)) agree in number with the noun it modifies (crème(s) (“cream(s)”)); crème brûlées treats the phrase as a headless English noun, regularly suffixing -s to form its plural; whereas crèmes brûlée retains the nominal head, forming a plural by suffixation of the noun, per English grammar.

• crème brulée (post-1990 spelling)

Literally, “burnt cream.”

• IPA^(key): /kʁɛm bʁy.le/

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crème brûlée f (plural crèmes brûlées)

1. crème brûlée

Unadapted borrowing from French crème brûlée.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɛm ˈbri.lɛ/
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crème brûlée m inan (indeclinable)

1. crème brûlée

• crème brûlée in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• crème brûlée in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• creme brulée

Unadapted borrowing from French crème brûlée.

crème brûlée m (uncountable)

1. crème brûlée (dessert)