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crémer

/kʁe.me/

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verb/kʁe.me/

to add cream; to turn to cream

From crème + -er.

verb/kʁe.me/

to cremate

En 1867 a lieu la découverte du bocal d'apothicaire censé contenir quelques ossements crémés de Jeanne d'Arc recueillis sous le bûcher, conservé dans un droguier abandonné dans le grenier d'une pharmacie de la rue du Temple, à Paris.The year 1867 saw the discovery of an apothecary jar that was supposed to contain some of the cremated remains of Joan of Arc, collected from under the stake. The jar had been kept in an abandoned store of drugs in the attic of a chemist's on the Rue du Temple in Paris.

Synonyms: crématiser

Learned borrowing from Latin cremāre. Doublet of cramer.