custard

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sweet dessert or sauce made from milk or cream, eggs, and usually sugar, thickened by heating

   She poured warm custard over the apple pie.

2. 2
   noun

   a similar sweet sauce thickened with starch or custard powder rather than eggs

   The school served vanilla custard made with milk and custard powder.

Common collocations

• custard pie Noun + noun

An alteration of Middle English crustade or croustade, a pie with a crust, from Old French crouste ("crust"). The name gradually shifted from the pastry case to its egg-and-milk filling and then to the modern sauce or dessert.

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