Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An adherent crust; an incrustation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An adherent crust; an incrustation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An adherent crust; an incrustation
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Examples
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Just when I thought dinosaurs were extinct, here comes this crustation (Lieberman) yammering about another crustation (John McCain).
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She had recently snorted cocaine, as there was a residue of powder still in her right nostril and crustation around both nostrils.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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She had recently snorted cocaine, as there was a residue of powder still in her right nostril and crustation around both nostrils.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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There are four-cent lodging-houses, where there is only straw without any covering; and there are three-cent houses, where there is no straw even, but only bare boards rotting beneath a crustation of dirt and filth, which is never washed off.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Maybe some other crustation, but then again, maybe not.
Fond of Snape 2009
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Oliver, from street urchin to crustation, maybe it's time to move back in with [profane] in.
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