double cream

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   fresh soft French cheese containing at least 60% fat

   Broadercream cheese

Questions about double cream

What does double cream mean?

double cream means "fresh soft French cheese containing at least 60% fat".

Is double cream a common word?

double cream 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.