Cream Definition
- pearly-white
- lint-white
- dun-white
- alabastrine
- To be excited or delighted about something.
- To be excited or delighted about something.
- creamed purée of
cream of tomato soup
- the best of a group
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cream
- cream (one's) jeans
- cream (one's) jeans
- cream of
- cream of the crop
Origin of Cream
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From Middle English creime, creme, from Anglo-Norman creme, cresme (compare French crème), blend of Late Latin chrisma 'ointment' (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (chrisma) 'unguent'), and Late Latin crāmum 'skim', from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen 'scab, skin', Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm 'surface, skin', Dutch schram 'abrasion', Lithuanian kramas 'scurf'). Replaced Old English ream. Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English creme from Old French craime, cresme partly from Late Latin crāmum (of Gaulish origin) (akin to Welsh crawen, cramen crust) (and Middle Irish screm film) and partly from Vulgar Latin crisma an anointing (from Latin chrīsma) (from Greek khrīsma unguent) (from khrīein to anoint ghrēi- in Indo-European roots)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English creme from Old French craime, cresme partly from Late Latin crāmum (of Gaulish origin) (akin to Welsh crawen, cramen crust) (and Middle Irish screm film) and partly from Vulgar Latin crisma an anointing (from Latin chrīsma) (from Greek khrīsma unguent) (from khrīein to anoint ghrēi- in Indo-European roots)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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