deep-dish

[deep-dish]

adjective Cookery.

baked in a deep dish, often with a pastry top: a deep-dish peach pie.

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Origin of deep-dish

First recorded in 1935–40

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Examples from the Web for deep-dish

Contemporary Examples

Students fill their trays with deep-dish pepperoni slices and napa salad and head to the lunch lady for checkout.
The Schools That Starve Students to Punish Deadbeat Parents
Brandy Zadrozny
January 30, 2014

Historical Examples

It was a deep-dish peach pie—I made it specially for Mr. MacGill.
Missy
Dana Gatlin
We could have worried along without Kipling, but her deep-dish pie with whipped cream on it was a poem that won our hearts.
Dwellers in Arcady
Albert Bigelow Paine
Her deep-dish pies became savorless, the whipped cream smeary and sad of taste.
Dwellers in Arcady
Albert Bigelow Paine
Philosophizing on the irrationality of old people, she proceeded to get enough scarcely-ripe peaches for a deep-dish pie.
Missy
Dana Gatlin