Tops-and-bottoms

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  1. 1
    Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in half, and browned in an oven. In 19th century Britain they were used as food for children. archaic, plural, plural-only

    "'Tis said her tops-and-bottoms were gilt."

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"'Tis said her tops-and-bottoms were gilt."

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