encrustation

[ en-kruh-stey-shuhn ]
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noun
  1. an encrusting or being encrusted.

  2. a crust or coat of anything on the surface of a body; covering, coating, or scale.

  1. the inlaying or addition of enriching materials on or to a surface or an object.

  2. the enriching materials inlaid on or added to a surface or an object.

Origin of encrustation

1
First recorded in 1650–60 for incrustation, later for encrustation,encrust + -ation
  • Also in·crus·ta·tion [in-kruh-stey-shuhn] /ˌɪn krʌˈsteɪ ʃən/ .

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How to use encrustation in a sentence

  • It is hard and mineralized, this is to say, the warp and woof of silk are hidden by a thick encrustation of sand.

    More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri Fabre
  • This quickly removes the encrustation if it has not been allowed to grow thick before the attempt is made.

  • He had reached the end of the narrow passage, and dimly made out a domed room in the rock, white with translucent encrustation.

    Frontier Boys on the Coast | Capt. Wyn Roosevelt
  • They laved their wounds, which were intensely sore at first, owing to the encrustation of salt on their skins.

    His Unknown Wife | Louis Tracy
  • Gabriel sat up on the bed and rapped the bowl of his pipe against the bedpost to loosen some refractory encrustation.

    Gabriel Conroy | Bert Harte