To remove cream from milk or skim off the top layer of a liquid.
From de- (remove) + cream. 'Cream' comes from Old French 'creme' and possibly Gaulish (Celtic) origins. The de- prefix indicates the reversal of the creaming process, separating cream from milk.
Before refrigeration and mechanization, 'decreaming' was the daily dairy work of separating cream for butter—it's a word rooted in agricultural labor that became obsolete when electric separators made the hand-skimming technique unnecessary.
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