Definitions

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  • adjective covered with or hardened into a crust.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of encrust.
  • adjective Having an incrustation

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  • adjective having a hardened crust as a covering

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Examples

  • The climax came when a sequin encrusted Jesus (played by the best actor – a woman) was raised dramatically from the ground on a rough wooden cross.

    My journey into the world of narrative 2008

  • The purple domino, worn carelessly open, revealed black satin encrusted with silver and diamonds.

    The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century 1921

  • The artist might use simply a few items or can almost cover the piece in a technique called encrusted embellishing.

    Blisstree 2009

  • The artist might use simply a few items or can almost cover the piece in a technique called encrusted embellishing.

    Blisstree 2009

  • So go love's small murders, tiny everyday escalations of injury, reacted to by disconnection, causing more injury, until one fast-forwards to a couple whose initial passion has become so 'encrusted' with disappointment that they barely function as a couple anymore.

    December 2002 Halley Suitt 2002

  • So go love's small murders, tiny everyday escalations of injury, reacted to by disconnection, causing more injury, until one fast-forwards to a couple whose initial passion has become so 'encrusted' with disappointment that they barely function as a couple anymore.

    December 2002 Halley Suitt 2002

  • I agree that we should have reduced expenditures in the Housing and Urban Development Department, but what we did was to get rid of a whole layer of regional offices and to consolidate a lot of those various programs that had been kind of encrusted with bureaucracy over the years.

    President Remarks To Emory University Students ITY National Archives 1995

  • Keeping the cables off the often mud-encrusted down tube is a good thing for cyclocross.

    ’Cross Check: Fondriest Cross Carbon cyclocross bike reviewed 2011

  • As you might imagine, Beethoven is a composer of particular interest for such revisionism, given both the encrusted consensus on interpreting his music and the highly-charged political atmospheres both in which he worked and in which his music has been used (and misused) ever since.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • As you might imagine, Beethoven is a composer of particular interest for such revisionism, given both the encrusted consensus on interpreting his music and the highly-charged political atmospheres both in which he worked and in which his music has been used (and misused) ever since.

    A juke box hero, got stars in his eyes Matthew Guerrieri 2009

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