- 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
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
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
The throne itself was of ivory with gold incrustation and with elbow-rests of gold, in the form of recumbent lions.
From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin
The solution from copper ores would deposit some sort of green incrustation, of carbonates mostly.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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