Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A thick cream made primarily in England by heating milk until a layer of cream forms on its surface that is then cooled and skimmed off. Also called Devonshire cream.
Wiktionary
- n. A thick, sweet dairy product, made by skimming the thickened layer off the top of unhomogenized cream that has been heated and allowed to stand. Fat content is at least 55%.
WordNet 3.0
- n. thick cream made from scalded milk
Examples
“They had dined at a wayside inn on jugged hare, roast beef, and Yorkshire pudding, clotted cream and haver (oaten) bread, and the careless stillness of physical well-being and of minds at ease needed no speech, but the mutual smiling nod of intimate sympathy.”
“The two women were served a silver tiered tray of tiny sandwiches with the crusts removed, cucumber and smoked salmon and dill, and sugarsprinkled scones with fresh clotted cream and strawberry jam, and on the top, tiny little tea cakes topped with sugared violets.”
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UK Realia
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AGRI - milk products
milk powder, cake mix, cheddar cheese, blue cheese, clotted cream, hard cheese, semi-skimmed milk, single cream, skimmed milk, whipping cream, sour cream, curd and 11 more...
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Word combinations that make you wince.
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AGRI - milk sector
Terms used in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy referring to policy issues in the milk sector.
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British Food
Traditional British dishes have some of the most unique and interesting names. Here's a list to collect all those wonderfully-named foods and delectable words to describe how delicious British cuis...
spotted dick, black pudding, crumpets, yorkshire pudding, mushy peas, bubble and squeak, scotch egg, fish and chips, clotted cream, full english, bangers and mash, sunday roast and 63 more...
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food words
weetabix, blancmange, shandy, meringue, allspice, pavlova, quiche, caster sugar, suet, moonshine, turnip, swede and 93 more...
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Fun Food Names
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
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The Motherland! (God Bless the Queen)
Words that remind me of England, which I miss very much.
snog, nappy, wanker, telly, knickers, crumpet, pants, bum, loo, bollocks, stroppy, whinge and 108 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir A work colleague imported Devonshire cream especially for a tea-with-scones break held today. Scones fresh-baked by Anglophile colleagues. Antique tea sets, cups and saucers, and fine linen napkins, cucumber sandwiches, petits fours. Nice. Jan 28, 2010
jennarenn WONDERFUL on scones, and it's got that great short o sound to boot.
Fortunately, jennarenn's waistline is not affected by her wordie comments. When posting becomes caloric, she'll be in trouble. ;) Jan 29, 2008
treeseed Also called scald cream or scalded cream. Jan 29, 2008
treeseed (n): a thick cream made chiefly in England by slowly heating whole milk on which the cream has been allowed to rise and then skimming the cooled cream from the top —called also Devonshire cream Jan 21, 2008