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means A thick, cream-based preparation or mixture — or, more often, a word businesses slap on products to add a veneer of French luxury.

from From French crème, 'cream,' which traces back to Late Latin cremum. The Latin itself is a bit mysterious — some scholars think it blended with Gaulish crama, a native Celtic word for cream, rather than descending cleanly from Classical Latin. By the time it reached English, 'creme' had already split into two careers: one scooping literal dairy fat, the other being printed on labels to make lotion, liqueur, or soap sound like it was smuggled out of Paris.