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crust
(redirected from crusting)

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upper crust
Fig. the higher levels of society; the upper class. (From the top, as opposed to the bottom, crust of a pie.) Jane speaks like that because she pretends to be from the upper crust, but her father was a miner. James is from the upper crust, but he is penniless.
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the upper crust
people who have the highest social position and who are usually rich Many treasures were brought back to Britain because its upper crust was wealthy and liked travelling abroad.
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She reported that since then, she bad experienced intranasal crusting, anosmia, and difficulty breathing through her nose.
Wrapping and crusting being his thing, Eckermann effectively crusts shrimp with filo dough ($13.
Since the use of microdebriders and through-cutting forceps became widespread in endoscopic sinonasal surgery, the incidence of postoperative crusting and synechiae has decreased noticeably.
 
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