crème brûlée

See also: creme brulee and creme brulée

English

Alternative forms

• creme brulee
• crème brulée

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹɛm bɹuˈleɪ/

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Noun

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

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

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: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 焦糖奶油 (jiāotáng nǎiyóu)

• Czech: crème brûlée m
• Dutch: crème brûlée
• Finnish: crème brûlée, paahtovanukas (fi)
• French: crème brûlée (fr) f
• German: Crème brulée (de) f, Crème brûlée (de) f
• Hungarian: égetett krém
• Italian: crème brûlée f
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• Japanese: クレームブリュレ (ja) (kurīmuburyure)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: क्रेम ब्रूले (krem brūle)
• Portuguese: crème brûlée
• Russian: крем-брюле́ (ru) n (krem-brjulé)
• Spanish: crema catalana f
• Swedish: crème brûlée c
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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French

Etymology

crème (“cream”) + brûlée (“burnt”)

Noun

crème brûlée f (plural crèmes brûlées)

1. crème brûlée

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• creme brulée

Noun

crème brûlée m (uncountable)

1. crème brûlée (dessert)