Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crust of bread.
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Examples
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The lobby, with its thick pillars of porous Caen stone, its pointed vaulting, and a brown glazed-tile floor like well-baked bread-crust, is a combination of cathedral-crypt and rathskellar.
Babbit 2004
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High forehead, hair the color of bread-crust, with an exaggerated widow's peak, pale brows above skeptical hooded eyes of cold green with an inner ring of amber around the pupil, thin-bridged nose, mouth habitually downturned so as not to give away the fact that the infrequent smile could charm and bedazzle.
Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998
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He had something more than a turnip and stale bread-crust on his mind, however.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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He had something more than a turnip and stale bread-crust on his mind, however.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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Their fingers, and their toes, just freeze on to rock; and they tear it up like bread-crust.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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-- [You should vary the diet with wheat, Indian corn, bits of bread-crust, bread-and-milk squeezed dry, with any kind of nut occasionally, and a few blades of grass or field weeds.]
Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various
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The lobby, with its thick pillars of porous Caen stone, its pointed vaulting, and a brown glazed-tile floor like well-baked bread-crust, is a combination of cathedral-crypt and rathskellar.
Chapter 5 1922
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The lobby, with its thick pillars of porous Caen stone, its pointed vaulting, and a brown glazed-tile floor like well-baked bread-crust, is a combination of cathedral-crypt and rathskellar.
Babbitt 1922
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The lobby, with its thick pillars of porous Caen stone, its pointed vaulting, and a brown glazed-tile floor like well-baked bread-crust, is
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918
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They roamed for a long time about the island without any success whatever, but at last the penetrating smell of bread-crust and sour sheepskin put them on the track.
A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889
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