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Meaning of kissing-crust | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.

Examples

“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”
“he cuts a massy fragment from the rich curly kissing-crust, that hangs like⟳ a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf[…]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

Kissinger Kissingerism Kissings Kissler kisslessness Kissling

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