encrustment

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From encrust +‎ -ment.

Noun

encrustment (countable and uncountable, plural encrustments)

  1. encrustation (something forming a crust).
    • 1860, Isaac Taylor, “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC:
      disengaging truth from its encrustment of error

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