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encrustation

American  
[en-kruh-stey-shuhn] / ˌɛn krʌˈsteɪ ʃən /
Also incrustation

noun

  1. an encrusting or being encrusted.

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

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

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

Etymology

Origin of encrustation

First recorded in 1650–60 for incrustation, later for encrustation, encrust + -ation

Example Sentences

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Encrustation is gone; design, once more, is everything.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dear Miss H. Thank you for a noble Goose, which wanted only the massive Encrustation that we used to pick-axe open about this season in old Gloster Place.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary

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