incrustation
Example Sentences
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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 material is a soft grey earthenware, covered with a layer of buff clay, perhaps an original slip or perhaps an adhering soil incrustation.
From Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Breck, Joseph
Copy-books that have done long service are coated with a smooth, shining incrustation of carbon—shining if good ink has been used, but dull if ink is of cheap quality.
From A Japanese Boy by Shiukichi, Shigemi
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