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The French word for cream is
crème





cream

Gender

The gender of crème is feminine. E.g. la crème.

Plural

The plural of crème is crèmes.

French Definition


cream
     1. n. Crème (aliment).
     2. n. Crème, gratin (pour qualifier les meilleurs).
     3. n. Crème (onguent).
     4. adj. Crème.
     5. v. (Argot) Battre, vaincre



Translations for cream and their definitions

crème
     1. adj. (color) cream
     2. adj. (colloquial) cool
     3. n-f. cream
     4. n-f. (France, colloquial) café crème
     5. n-f. (Louisiana French) ice cream
     6. v. first-person singular present indicative of crémer
     7. v. third-person singular present indicative of crémer
     8. v. first-person singular present subjunctive of crémer
     9. v. second-person singular imperative of crémer


crème de la crème
     1. n-f. crème de la crème (the best of something)


Fleur
     1. Proper noun. given name, female
           lang=fr, Fleur Pellerin, b. 1973
     2. n-f. (botany) flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants")
           Je suis allé cueillir une fleur dans les champs. - I went to pick a flower in the fields.
           Il m’a offert de magnifiques fleurs. - He offered me magnificent flowers.
     3. n-f. (metonymy) flowering plant; angiosperm; the plant with flowers itself
           Les orchidées sont des fleurs recherchées. - Orchids are sought-after flowers.
     4. n-f. (figuratively) a kind favor given by one person to another
           Il m’a fait une fleur. - He gave me a kind favor.
     5. n-f. (figuratively) the best of something
           Voici la fine fleur de la jeunesse française. - Here's the cream of the crop of French youth.
           Mourir à la fleur de l’âge. - to die in the prime of life
     6. n-f. (metaphor) the virginity of a woman
           Fleurs de soufre, de zinc, d’arsenic, d’antimoine. - refinements of sulfur, zinc, arsenic, antimony


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