creme anglais

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   custard sauce flavored with vanilla or a liqueur

   Broadercustard

Questions about creme anglais

What does creme anglais mean?

creme anglais means "custard sauce flavored with vanilla or a liqueur".

Is creme anglais a common word?

creme anglais is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.