crustless

English

Etymology

From crust +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

crustless (not comparable)

  1. (cooking) Having no crust
    • 2007 June 6, “Recipe: Pork Meatballs With Yogurt Dressing”, in New York Times[1]:
      1 cup crustless country bread, torn into pieces
    • 2013 February 26, Michael Moss, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us[2], McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN:
      This wasn't a new concoction of salt, sugar, and fat whose appeal was well known to these investors. Madison's $18 billion portfolio had contained the largest Burger King franchise in the world, the Ruth's Chris Steak House chain, and a processed food maker called Pierre whose lineup includes a champion of handheld convenience, the Jamwich, a peanut butter and jelly contrivance that comes frozen, crustless, and embedded with four kinds of sugars, from dextrose to corn syrup.
    • 2015, Courtney Hodell, “Babes in the Woods”, in Meghan Daum, editor, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, pages 14–15:
      From birth, Christian had an innate sense of flair and ceremony: in elementary school, indifferent to mockery, he would cut our peanut butter and jelly into crustless tea sandwiches and include a fluted paper plate in our lunch bags.