kissing-crust
nounEtymology
From kissing + crust.
Definitions
The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.
- how he would recommend this slice of white bread, or that piece of kissing crust, to a tender juvenile, advising them all to have a care of cracking their teeth
- he cuts a massy fragment from the rich curly kissing-crust, that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf[…]
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