encrustation
an encrusting or being encrusted.
a crust or coat of anything on the surface of a body; covering, coating, or scale.
the inlaying or addition of enriching materials on or to a surface or an object.
the enriching materials inlaid on or added to a surface or an object.
Origin of encrustation
1- 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 FabreThis quickly removes the encrustation if it has not been allowed to grow thick before the attempt is made.
The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping | Elizabeth Hale GilmanHe 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 RooseveltThey laved their wounds, which were intensely sore at first, owing to the encrustation of salt on their skins.
His Unknown Wife | Louis TracyGabriel sat up on the bed and rapped the bowl of his pipe against the bedpost to loosen some refractory encrustation.
Gabriel Conroy | Bert Harte
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