- a variation of encrustation.
incrustation
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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 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
On the top is a shallow cup for the reception of the one or two eggs, which have a bluish-white shell with chalky incrustation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
Beyond the Art Gallery, a long passage brings you to a narrow twisted opening named the Gimlet, and to two ancient potholes leading to unknown depths, and "profusely ornamented with florescent incrustation."
From Among the Canadian Alps by Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee
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