Vocabulary Word
Word: incrustation
Definition: hard coating or crust; V. incrust: encrust; cover with a crust
Definition: hard coating or crust; V. incrust: encrust; cover with a crust
Sentences Containing 'incrustation'
And along the margin where the water sometimes broke was a thick incrustation of salt--pink under the lurid sky.
Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a greenish incrustation blotched it here and there.
Then, again, if you fix your eye upon this strange, crested, comb-like incrustation on the top of the mass--this green, barnacled thing, which the Greenlanders call the "crown," and the Southern fishers the "bonnet" of the Right Whale; fixing your eyes solely on this, you would take the head for the trunk of some huge oak, with a bird's nest in its crotch.
An early Roman style of note was "Incrustation", in which the interior walls of houses were painted to resemble colored marble.