encrusted

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Police also found on the ground nearby the damaged crown of Empress Eugénie, encrusted with 1,354 diamonds and 56 emeralds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

At its heart was a 12ft tall emblem of the Hindu god Shiva, sheathed in gold encrusted with rubies and pearls.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

If Los Angeles has a reputation for opera, it is as an outlier, a city freed from encrusted tradition and eager to invent.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024

Trays laden with dirty dishes, leftovers, encrusted silverware and much worse slowly inched their way toward me on a conveyor belt.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2024

Filch, who had been lurking unnoticed in a far corner of the Hall, now approached Dumbledore carrying a great wooden chest encrusted with jewels.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling