A small container or pitcher for serving cream, or a substitute product used instead of real cream.
From cream (Old French creme, from Latin cremor meaning thickness or richness) plus the suffix -er indicating an agent or container. The cream-substitute meaning emerged in the 20th century.
Non-dairy creamers were invented because they don't spoil as quickly as real cream and could be shipped long distances—so the word creamer itself represents a food storage revolution that changed how we drink coffee globally.
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