kissing-crust

noun

Etymology

From kissing + crust.

  1. derived from *krustós
  2. derived from crusta
  3. derived from cruste
  4. inherited from cruste
  5. compounded as kissing-crust — “kissing + crust

Definitions

  1. 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[…]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA