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