Last Updated：2025/11/22

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see upper, crust. The topmost layer of a bread, pastry dish, or other item with a hardened coating.

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upper crust

Source Word

upper crust

Noun

idiomatic usually with the

Japanese Meaning

パンやペストリーなどにおける、硬く固まった上部の層（表面部分）

After baking, the cherry pie's upper crust browned evenly and cracked slightly along the edges.

焼き上がると、チェリーパイの一番上の焼き色がついた層が均一にこんがりと色づき、縁に沿ってわずかにひび割れました。

Sense（1）

She went to get her tarts . . . but some one had stolen all the fruit out of them by lifting up the upper crust.

Sense（2）

(idiomatic, usually with the) The social elite, the highest social class.

upper crusts

（ plural ）