egg cream

noun

: a sweetened drink made with milk or cream and other ingredients
especially : a drink consisting of milk, a flavoring syrup, and soda water

Examples of egg cream in a Sentence

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As outré, or even profane, as dirty soda might sound, there are plenty of precedents: ice-cream floats; Italian sodas; egg creams, which despite the name contain only seltzer, chocolate or vanilla syrup, and milk. Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024 That walk for me was down 13th Street between Avenues A and B and onto St Mark's to get an egg cream from Gem Spa. Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Sep. 2024 Keep it simple with a Herbert’s Fave — a classic pastrami and coleslaw — and the egg cream, a must. Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 31 July 2024 The school’s name is a local misnomer on the order of the egg cream. Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024 The third course is either an egg cream puff or tuxedo cake. Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024 There’s a milk menu, your choice of plain or chocolate or coffee (a Rhode Island specialty, made with Autocrat-brand coffee syrup, sweet and bitter); the latter two can be topped with a squirt of seltzer to make a very decent egg cream. Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024 Crestwood Pharmacy also offers classic soda fountain libations including egg creams, phosphate sodas, and Lime Rickeys. Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 26 June 2023 Finish with your favorite sheet mask, like Too Cool for School’s egg cream mask hydration, or a deep moisturizer on your face and neck, then eye cream. Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1906, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of egg cream was in 1906

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“Egg cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/egg%20cream. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.

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