pie crust

plural pie crusts · alternative piecrust

1. countableuncountableThe crust of a pie.

   [T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.

   1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 40

2. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountablefashionEllipsis of pie crust collar.

   A new generation is already taking to the silk scarf in hair and around necks, velvet headbands as well as pearls and pie crusts.

   2020 November 26, Lauren Cochrane, “Pie crusts and pearls: the unexpected return of the Sloane Ranger”, in The Guardian