Meanings
nounencrustment (countable and uncountable, plural encrustments)
plural encrustments · alternative incrustment
- countableuncountableencrustation (something forming a crust).
disengaging truth from its encrustment of error
1860, Isaac Taylor, “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC
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