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piecrust|ˈpaɪkrʌst|
[f. pie n.2 + crust.]
a. The baked paste forming the crust of a pie.
1582J. Hester Secr. Phiorav. iii. liii. 75 Ye shall not eate..Butter, Milke, Cheese, or Pie crustes, or suche like thynges. 1626B. Jonson Staple of N. ii. i, One that..preserues him⁓selfe, Like an old hoary Rat, with mouldy pye-crust. 1817Scott in Lockhart Life (1837) IV. 98 The posts, which are as cross as pye-crust, have occasioned some delay. 1869Hazlitt's Eng. Prov. 320 Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken.
b. fig. (in reference to hardness or dryness).
1869Blackmore Lorna D. xlii, I will work it out by myself, you pie-crusts. 1872Baker Nile Tribut. xviii. 322 The dry season baked it into a pie-crust.
c. attrib.; proverbially and humorously of promises lightly broken (see quot. 1869 above), as piecrust pledge, piecrust promise; of the colour of piecrust, as piecrust hair, piecrust straw; applied to a table having an ornamental edge suggestive of the crust of a pie, as pie-crust table, piecrust top.
1739‘R. Bull’ tr. Dedekindus' Grobianus 162 Then all the Vengeance of the Gods invoke, In Case this Pye-crust Promise should be broke. 1888Pall Mall G. 7 Dec. 11/1 Having laid to Mr. Smith's charges another piecrust pledge. 1889W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy, etc. (1892) 98 The pie-crust hair had not been placed in mourning. 1902L. V. Lockwood Colonial Furnit. Amer. 232 The handsomest of the Dutch tea-tables were what are popularly known as ‘pie-crust tables’. 1914R. & E. Shackleton Charm of Antique iii. 49 The most sought-for and rarest of little tables is the ‘pie-crust’ tip-table, so named from its apparently finger-dented pie-crust-like margin of regular irregularity. 1923W. Deeping Secret Sanct. xx. 210 She had closed the lid of her work-basket and placed it on the ‘pie-crust’ table by the window. 1951Good Housek. Home Encycl. 106/1 Tri-pod tables..with ‘piecrust’ tops. 1969A. Negus Going for Song 120 So on original pie-crust tables there are no joins at all round the pie-crust edge. 1973A. Behrend Samarai Affair iv. 53 The glossy telephone on the antique piecrust table. |