creme brulee

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   custard sprinkled with sugar and broiled

   Broadercustard

Questions about creme brulee

What does creme brulee mean?

creme brulee means "custard sprinkled with sugar and broiled".

Is creme brulee a common word?

creme brulee 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.