crème brûlée
See also: creme brulee and creme brulée
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from French crème brûlée (literally “burnt cream”).
Pronunciation
Noun
crème brûlée (countable and uncountable, plural crème brûlées or crèmes brûlées or crèmes brûlée)
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
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French
Etymology
crème (“cream”) + brûlée (“burnt”)
Noun
crème brûlée f (plural crèmes brûlées)
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Noun
crème brûlée m (uncountable)
- crème brûlée (dessert)
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