kissingcrustとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

kissingcrust (countable かつ uncountable; 複数形 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.

名詞

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 559961973:

     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 […]

参照

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