- a variation of encrustation.
incrustation
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The effect, twinkling and blazing under the museum lights, is of quite breathtaking intensity: the gold and silver may be only foil, but they go beyond rococo incrustation into a domain of absolute theatricality.
From Time Magazine Archive
And at such moments, Citizen Judges, everything personal, all the personal incrustation, all rancor, pride and a number of other things, fall away, disappear.
From Time Magazine Archive
From close up the "lake" is a glistening incrustation of blue-green glass 2,400 ft. in diameter, formed when the molten soil solidified in air.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pre-existent spirit here well-nigh disappears under stifling folds of vegetable leaf and animal incrustation of overgrowing husk.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Brass plates are not very suitable as they become corroded and so reduce the size of the orifice; if the incrustation is removed the orifice will discharge more than the calibration indicates.
From Chlorination of Water by Race, Joseph
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