kissing-crust

English

Etymology

kissing +‎ crust

Noun

kissing-crust

  1. The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.
    • 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
      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 teeth
    • 1840, William Howitt, The Rural Life of England:
      he cuts a massy fragment from the rich curly kissing-crust, that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf […]

References

kissingcrust in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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