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Webster 1913 Edition


Kissingcrust

Kiss′ing-crustˊ

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Noun.
(Cookery)
The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.
Lamb.
A massy fragment from the rich
kissingcrust
that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf.
W. Howitt.

Definition 2024


kissingcrust

kissingcrust

English

Noun

kissingcrust (countable and uncountable, plural kissingcrusts)

  1. The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.
    Lamb.
    A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf. W. Howitt.