A French shop or establishment that sells dairy products, especially cream, milk, and cheese.
From French crème (cream), with the suffix -erie indicating a shop or place where something is sold or made, similar to 'bakery' or 'grocery.' Crème itself comes from Latin cremor (meaning cream or thick juice).
The word cremerie reveals how French organized commerce—just as a boulangerie specialized in bread and a fromagerie in cheese, cremeries were dedicated shops focusing on a single product category, a model very different from modern supermarkets.
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