crème brûlée

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/

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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.

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

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) 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 Japanese: クレームブリュレ (ja) (kurēmuburyure) 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

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French

Alternative forms

• crème brulée (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

crème (“cream”) +‎ brûlée (“burnt”)

Pronunciation

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Noun

crème brûlée f (plural crèmes brûlées)

1. crème brûlée

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Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French crème brûlée.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krɛm ˈbri.lɛ/
• Rhymes: -ilɛ

Noun

crème brûlée m inan (indeclinable)

1. crème brûlée

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• creme brulée

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French crème brûlée.

Noun

crème brûlée m (uncountable)

1. crème brûlée (dessert)