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Definition of Piecrusts
1. piecrust [n] - See also: piecrust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piecrusts
Literary usage of Piecrusts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"Purs. " That can bring in these pirates' ships or heads." Clown. That can bring
in these piecrusts or sheeps'-heads. Purs. " A thousand pound sterling. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"PASTE, s. dough for piecrusts. PATCH, s. (i) a shade worn over the eye. Some years
ago a cattle dealer, who was blind of one eye and wore ..."
3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1846)
"That can hring in these piecrusts or sheeps'-heads. Purs. "A thousand pound
sterling." Clown. A thousand stares and starlings. Purs. " If a banish'd man, ..."
4. The Rambler by Samuel Johnson (1822)
"... and their piecrusts tough. " I am now very impatient to know whether I am to
look on these ladies as the great patterns of our sex, and to consider ..."
5. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1859)
"Some of those volumes have come down to us, not only with the stains, but inclosing
even the identical piecrusts of the Elizabethan age. ..."
6. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1858)
"Some of those volumes have come down to us, not only with the stains, but inclosing
even the identical piecrusts of the Elizabethan age. ..."
7. The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers (1811)
"... and their piecrusts tough. Lady Bustle has, indeed, by this incessant application
to fruits and flowers, contracted her cares into a narrow space, ..."
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