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devonshire cream

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clotted cream

–noun
cream that has been clotted by cooking.
Also called, British, Devon cream, Devonshire cream.


Origin:
1875–80
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clot·ted cream   (klŏt'ĭd)
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.
Dev·on·shire cream   (děv'ən-shîr', -shər)   
n.  See clotted cream.

[After Devonshire, or Devon, a county of southwest England.]
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