What is "piecrust"

Usage examples of "piecrust".

Rayon and Orion scalloped out all around like a piecrust to be trimmed.

Cherries, still warm from the oven, oozed out from under the golden brown piecrust to color the pale blue china.

Then he saw windows in the mounds, and an Ogier woman standing at one apparently rolling a piecrust, and realized he was looking at Ogier houses.

Or, at the other end of the scale, their military hierarchy, without war to thin its ranks, may have collapsed like piecrust under our unexpected pressure.

An arrow gouged in a piecrust occasional table points one way so I go the other.

She wore churchgoing clothes of sensible district-nurse-type hat and costume in a land of underdone piecrust colour.

The light was thicker, less heat was coming today from the piecrust cloud.

I remembered seeing some dried apples so I put them to soak and got out piecrust makings.

The top, carved from a single piece of lavishly grained mahogany, had a graceful, piecrust scalloped edge.

That seemed to content the boy and he turned his attention to the plate of fruit pie minus piecrust which had been placed before him.

When the men had done circling the canvas, it was no longer like a piecrust, but hung like a vast, limp, wrinkled saucer, its inside at the base of the center pole, its rim supported some twelve feet above the ground by the ring of outer poles.

Nellie got back to her place, she saw that Alex had managed to pull out the pies in time, though one of the piecrusts was broken.

Taking some of the salep, I carefully mumbled the piecrust into the left side of my mouth.

As Ruth carefully unswathed it, on the piecrust table in the living room, Pat gave an exclamation.

Zack reached over and snagged the receiver off the piecrust table before she could get up and answer it.