crust
noun
the brown, hard outer portion or surface of a loaf or slice of bread (distinguished from crumb).
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
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 Ambrose Bierce
When the undercrust was exposed he uttered an exclamation.
From Bart Keene's Hunting Days or, The Darewell Chums in a Winter Camp by Allen Chapman
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 Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln
"That rhubarb duff won't be fit for a hog to eat; the undercrust ain't baked the least bit yet, and I have had it in there since fifteen minutes after 'leven."
From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland
