crème brûlée

See also: creme brulee and creme brulée

English

Alternative forms

• creme brulee, crème brulée

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹɛm bɹuˈleɪ/

• Audio (Canada):

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• Audio (UK):

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Noun

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.

Usage notes

• 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.

Translations

dessert

• Arabic: كريم بروليه (krēm brūlé)

  Hijazi Arabic: كريم بروليه m (krēm brūlē)

• Bulgarian: крем брюле́ m (krem brjulé)
• Catalan: crema cremada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 焦糖奶油 (jiāotáng nǎiyóu)

• Czech: crème brûlée m
• Dutch: crème brûlée (nl)
• Finnish: crème brûlée (fi), paahtovanukas (fi)
• French: crème brûlée (fr) f
• German: Crème brulée (de) f, Crème brûlée (de) f
• Hungarian: égetett krém
• Italian: crème brûlée f
• Japanese: クレームブリュレ (ja) (kurēmu buryure)
• Korean: 크렘 브륄레 (keurem beurwille)
• Lithuanian: krembriulė f
• Marathi: क्रेम ब्रूले (krem brūle)
• Polish: crème brûlée (pl) m
• Portuguese: crème brûlée
• Russian: крем-брюле́ (ru) n (krem-brjulé)
• Spanish: crema catalana f
• Swedish: crème brûlée c
• Vietnamese: kem cháy

French

Alternative forms

• crème brulée (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Literally, "burnt cream."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁɛm bʁy.le/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

crème brûlée f (plural crèmes brûlées)

1. crème brûlée

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French crème brûlée.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɛm ˈbri.lɛ/
• Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

Noun

crème brûlée m inan (indeclinable)

1. crème brûlée

Further reading

• “crème brûlée”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “crème brûlée”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• creme brulée

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French crème brûlée.

Noun

crème brûlée m (uncountable)

1. crème brûlée (dessert)