[f. CRISPY a. + -NESS.] The quality of being crispy; crispness.
a. 1648. Digby, Closet Open. (1677), 147. Give the top [of the pudding] a yellow crispiness.
1890. G. A. Hibbard, in Harper’s Mag., Oct., 670/2. The frilled and ruffled crispiness of its fittings up.
