"kissing-crust" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "kissing + crust",
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          "ref": "1840, William Howitt, The Rural Life of England",
          "text": "he cuts a massy fragment from the rich curly kissing-crust, that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf[…]",
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        "The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking."
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  "word": "kissing-crust"
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        "The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking."
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  "word": "kissing-crust"
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