peaches and cream
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Meaning · English
very good or pleasant
Literally: a sweet dessert
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
A young Salvation Army lassie with black curly hair, brown eyes and a peaches and cream complexion had caught his eye.
By now the " peaches and cream " teenager was in her forties, and grey haired, with nine children to feed and clothe.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed on Wikipedia “Irreversible binomial” (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-29). Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-30; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “peaches and cream” mean?
very good or pleasant Literally: a sweet dessert
Is “peaches and cream” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.