encrustation
Americannoun
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an encrusting or being encrusted.
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a crust or coat of anything on the surface of a body; covering, coating, or scale.
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the inlaying or addition of enriching materials on or to a surface or an object.
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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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