heavy cream

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   contains more than 36% butterfat

   Broadercream

Questions about heavy cream

What does heavy cream mean?

heavy cream means "contains more than 36% butterfat".

Is heavy cream a common word?

heavy 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.