kissing-crust
English
Etymology
kissing + crust
Noun
kissing-crust
- The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Lamb to this entry?)
- W. Howitt
- a massy fragment from the rich kissing-crust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for kissing-crust in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)