encrustment

English

Alternative forms

• incrustment

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

References

• “encrustment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.