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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
skimmed milk
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the slimmer has to do is to add a daily allocation of skimmed milk and a slice of wholemeal bread.
▪ Avoid cream liqueurs and take tea and coffee black or with skimmed milk.
▪ Breakfast each day consists of high fibre cereals with skimmed milk and a Vitamin C enriched orange drink.
▪ Gaperon is rounded in shape and made from skimmed milk or buttermilk and often flavoured with garlic or peppercorns.
▪ So skimmed milk is now easily available, since people have become more aware of the dangerously fattening potential of full-cream milk.
▪ Whole milk contains fat, so a better choice that still retains the calcium content is semi-skimmed or skimmed milk.
▪ You can also buy skimmed milk in powdered form.
▪ You must have half a pint of skimmed milk each day.
Wiktionary
skimmed milk

alt. (standard form of skim milk from=British English) n. (standard form of skim milk from=British English)

WordNet
skimmed milk

n. milk from which the cream has been skimmed [syn: skim milk] [ant: whole milk]

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Skimmed milk

Skimmed milk ( United Kingdom and Canada), or skim milk ( United States of America, Australia, and Canada), is made when all the cream (also called milkfat) is removed from whole milk.

Usage examples of "skimmed milk".

The wean was white-skinned as Claire, but with the sickly blue-white cast of skimmed milk, not Claire's pale glow, rich and grainless as the silk-white heartwood of a poplar tree.

Barry held the Queen's pint of semi-skimmed milk in front of him as though it were an orb.

I set about diluting the semen with egg yolk, skimmed milk, and glycerol.

Minute drops of skimmed milk were placed on the discs of five leaves.

All I bought was skimmed milk, but you can't tell any difference by the taste.

Oats were stirred into water, or skimmed milk, until they made a thick mess.

The man was pale as skimmed milk, with gaunt cheeks so pimpled Faia's face hurt in sympathy.

The cow--the only one I have ever seen do so--gave skimmed milk and very little of that.

Pale-white light, sourceless and flat as skimmed milk, filled the room.

The Bard stared at him, his eyes wide and frightened, his face pale as skimmed milk.