creme caramel

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   baked custard topped with caramel

   Broadercustard

Questions about creme caramel

What does creme caramel mean?

creme caramel means "baked custard topped with caramel".

Is creme caramel a common word?

creme caramel 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.