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Incrustation   Listen
noun
Incrustation  n.  
1.
The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.
2.
A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.
3.
(Arch.) A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.
4.
(Fine Arts) Anything inlaid or imbedded.





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"Incrustation" Quotes from Famous Books



... incapable of attracting the admiration, or influencing the feelings of a civilized community. Now the first broad characteristic of the building, and the root nearly of every other important peculiarity in it, is its confessed incrustation. It is the purest example in Italy of the great school of architecture in which the ruling principle is the incrustation of brick with more precious materials. Consider the natural circumstances which give rise to such a style. Suppose ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 - Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) • Various
... the street, half hidden by their garden walls, large stately houses of the Georgian era showed themselves. Mansions that had slumbered in the sun for a hundred years, great, solid houses whose yellow-wash seemed the incrustation left by golden and peaceful afternoons, houses of old English solidity yet with the Southern touch of deep verandas and the hint of palm trees in ...
— The Ghost Girl • H. De Vere Stacpoole
... springs are farther up on the bank than the larger ones. The deposit of sinter bordering one of them, with the emission of steam and smoke combined, gives it a resemblance to a chimney of a miner's cabin. Around them all is an incrustation formed from the bases of the spring deposits, arsenic, alum, sulphur, etc. This incrustation is sufficiently strong in many places to bear the weight of a man, but more frequently it gave way, and from ...
— The Discovery of Yellowstone Park • Nathaniel Pitt Langford


Words linked to "Incrustation" :   decoration, tophus, encrustation, cover, incrust, crust, tartar, formation, natural covering, ornament


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