cream of tartar

noun

a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C4H5KO6, used chiefly as an ingredient in baking powders and in galvanic tinning of metals. Also called potassium bitartrate, potassium acid tartrate.Compare tartar(def 3).

Origin of cream of tartar

First recorded in 1655–65

Words nearby cream of tartar

cream, cream cheese, cream cracker, cream ice, cream of coconut, cream of tartar, cream of the crop, the, cream pail, cream puff, cream puff paste, cream sauce

Example sentences from the Web for cream of tartar

The pod of the cream-of-tartar is the shape of a cucumber and 10 to 12 inches long.

Seven Legs Across the Seas |Samuel Murray
The cream-of-tartar tree, however, will interest a visitor more.

Seven Legs Across the Seas |Samuel Murray
The bush was dotted with huge baobabs, the cream-of-tartar trees which so impressed the voortrekkers in Lydenburg.

The African Colony |John Buchan
One cream-of-tartar tree seen close to the falls measured 22 feet in diameter.

Seven Legs Across the Seas |Samuel Murray

Then from the kitchen, where she had gone to get a fresh supply of cream-of-tartar biscuit, came little Mrs. Tidditt.

Fair Harbor |Joseph Crosby Lincoln

British Dictionary definitions for cream of tartar

cream of tartar

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another name for potassium hydrogen tartrate, esp when used in baking powders

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