¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Piecrust
1. the crust of a pie [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piecrust
Literary usage of Piecrust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hellenistic Pottery: The Plain Wares by Susan I. Rotroff (2006)
"Almost all of the Hellenistic mortars at the Agora belong to Form 1, distinguished
by piecrust handles, but two other variants, with lug and bolster handles ..."
2. The Home Cook Book: A Collection of Practical Receipts by Expert Cooks (1905)
"... PASTRIES The Art of Pie-Making— piecrust—Puff Paste—Preparing Fruits /or
Pie—Apple Pie— Cherry Pie—Cream Pie—Sour Cream Pie—Dried Fruit Pies—Lemon Pie, ..."
3. Co-operative Credit for the United States by Henry William Wolff (1917)
"That piecrust promise has long since been forgotten, as it was bound to be in
view of the programme traced for the Union, which was not to be carried ..."
4. The Tichborne Trial: The Summing-up by the Lord Chief Justice of England by Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Arthur Orton (1874)
"piecrust" was one of the three, and when that name was .... The defendant said
he had one white dog, piecrust, and another which he described as a half-bred ..."
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