crème brûlée

• creme brulee
• crème brulée

Borrowed 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)

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

• 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 (“cream”) + brûlée (“burnt”)

crème brûlée f (plural crèmes brûlées)

1. crème brûlée

• creme brulée

crème brûlée m (uncountable)

1. crème brûlée (dessert)