incrustation

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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 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

When Jonathan and I first came to the farm, we were incased in a hard incrustation of city ways.

From The Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge

This incrustation is very easily removed by re-heating the whitened surface, provided that the material has been kept scrupulously clean.

From The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame For the use of chemical and physical students by Shenstone, W. A.