pie crust

English

Alternative forms

• piecrust

Etymology

From pie +‎ crust.

Noun

pie crust (countable and uncountable, plural pie crusts)

1. The crust of a pie.
   • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 40:

     [T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.

2. (fashion) Ellipsis of pie crust collar.
   • 2020 November 26, Lauren Cochrane, “Pie crusts and pearls: the unexpected return of the Sloane Ranger”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     A new generation is already taking to the silk scarf in hair and around necks, velvet headbands as well as pearls and pie crusts.

Derived terms

• pie crust collar
• pie crust lease

 

Anagrams

• crepitus, pictures, cuprites