A soft, rich kind of cheese, made of unskimmed milk enriched by the addition of cream; a cheese of this kind.
fig. Sometimes used as a type of extreme fastidiousness of taste, elegance of language or style.
1583. Stocker, Hist. Civ. Warres Lowe C., II. 53 b. A pounde of Creame Cheese two Sous.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 65. With this Creame, to make Creame-cheese, ordinarily accustomed to be sold in Summer.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), II. 493. An English gentleman may believe the world was made by chance, or the moon made of cream cheese, if he pleases.
1848. Clough, Bothie, V. If the cream-cheeses be white, far whiter the hands that made them.
c. 1865. Circ. Sc., I. 355/2. Cream-cheese is the richest.
