undercrust
- a word derived from crust.
Example Sentences
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As in all such pieces nowadays, the fight-talk, crook-talk and woman-talk is entertaining and inoffensive because it seems to come from the interstices, rather than the undercrust of contemporary society.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pies with no undercrust are more easily served with a broad knife or a triangular knife made expressly Page 45 for pies.
From Carving and Serving by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey
The great bells of the churches were jarring the creamy moonlight which lay above the soggy undercrust of mud and snow.
From The Fiend's Delight by Bierce, Ambrose
Thanks to a merciful Providence, I'd come so fur without bein' buttered on the undercrust of that automobile or scalped with its crazy shover's bowie-knife.
From The Boy Scouts Book of Stories by Louderback, Walt
When the undercrust was exposed he uttered an exclamation.
From Bart Keene's Hunting Days or, The Darewell Chums in a Winter Camp by Chapman, Allen
