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pie crust

noun

Etymology

From pie + crust.

  1. derived from *krustós✻
  2. derived from crusta
  3. derived from cruste
  4. inherited from cruste
  5. compounded as pie crust — “pie + crust”

Definitions

  1. The crust of a pie.

    • [T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.

  2. Ellipsis of pie crust collar.

    • A new generation is already taking to the silk scarf in hair and around necks, velvet headbands as well as pearls and pie crusts.

The neighborhood

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