crustless en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree English crust Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English crustless From crust + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having no crust.
This wasn't a new concoction of salt, sugar, and fat whose appeal was well known to these investors. Madison's $18 billion portfolio had contained the largest Burger King franchise in the world, the Ruth's Chris Steak House chain, and a processed food maker called Pierre whose lineup includes a champion of handheld convenience, the Jamwich, a peanut butter and jelly contrivance that comes frozen, crustless, and embedded with four kinds of sugars, from dextrose to corn syrup.
2013 February 26, Michael Moss, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN:1 cup crustless country bread, torn into pieces
2007 June 6, “Recipe: Pork Meatballs With Yogurt Dressing”, in New York Times:From birth, Christian had an innate sense of flair and ceremony: in elementary school, indifferent to mockery, he would cut our peanut butter and jelly into crustless tea sandwiches and include a fluted paper plate in our lunch bags.
2015, Courtney Hodell, “Babes in the Woods”, in Meghan Daum, editor, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, pages 14–15: