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heavy cream

American  

noun

  • heavy creams
    plural
  1. thick cream having a high percentage of butterfat.


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The most decadent oatmeal I’ve ever had came from a room-service tray: heavy cream, three pats of melting salted butter, a tiny jar of Bonne Maman strawberry jam and a tin of spiced nuts.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025

In lieu of heavy cream, I added a few tablespoons of butter along with the milk.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2025

Where a recipe calls for cream, it is heavy cream.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

What’s next, Doncic was a fat, lazy, beer-drinking, hookah smoker feasting on a 77-ounce New York strip steak with a side of the Slovenian specialty of sliced potatoes layered with cheese and heavy cream?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025

They bought us things like heavy cream for coffee, but we didn’t drink coffee.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

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