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Definition: Custard coffin
Custard
\Cus"tard\ (k[u^]s"t[~e]rd), n. [Prob. the same word as
OE. crustade, crustate, a pie made with a crust, fr. L.
crustatus covered with a crust, p. p. of crustare, fr. crusta
crust; cf. OF. croustade pasty, It. crostata, or F. coutarde.
See
Crust, and cf.
Crustated.]
A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.
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Custard apple (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical
America, including several species of
Anona (
Anona squamosa
,
Anona reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or
ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft,
yellowish, edible pulp.
Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a
custard [Obs.] --Shak.
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