kissingcrust

Kissingcrust

Kiss"ing*crust`\, n. (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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