kissingcrust

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kissingcrust - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Kissingcrust \Kiss"ing*crust`\, n. (Cookery)
     The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched
     another loaf in baking. --Lamb.
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           A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs
           like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf.
                                                    --W. Howitt.
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