creyme

Noun

cream (countable and uncountable, plural creams)

1. The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
   • Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…
   1. (US, standards of identity) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
      • You may have noticed that any time that filling is mentioned on Oreo packaging, it's called "creme." This is no typo. Technically, the creamy filling inside an Oreo is not cream at all: The recipe used actually contains no dairy; as such, the FDA prohibits Nabisco from labeling the product as...2018 February 13, Rebecca Firsker, "What's Really in Oreo Cream Filling? Well, for One Thing, Not Cream", MyRecipes
   2. (UK, standards of identity) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
   3. (tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
      • I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.
2. A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
   • Hundreds of examples remain, still following the same general pattern—maroon, green or chocolate brown, for example, from ground to waist level, then a stale Cheddar cheese shade of cream above.1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 253
3. (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
   • Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.2004, Joey Green, Joey Green's Incredible Country Store, Rodale, →ISBN, page 267

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