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kissing-crust

kissing-crust noun: the portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.

Noun

kissing-crust

  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 teeth1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC
    • he cuts a massy fragment from the rich curly kissing-crust, that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf[…]1840, William Howitt, The Rural Life of England

Origin of kissing-crust

From kissing + crust.

Questions about kissing-crust

What does kissing-crust mean?
Kissing-crust means the portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.
What part of speech is kissing-crust?
Kissing-crust is a noun.

Words near kissing-crust in the dictionary

  1. kissing the rod
  2. kissing up
  3. kissing up to
  4. kissing-bunch
  5. kissing-bunches
  6. kissing-crust
  7. Kissinger
  8. Kissingerian
  9. Kissingerism
  10. Kissingers
  11. kissingly

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