Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Masche-croute [gnaw-crust].

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Masche-croute [gnaw-crust].
 
A hideous wooden statue carried about Lyons during Carnival. The nurses of Lyons frighten children by threatening to throw them to Masche-croute.   1
 


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