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crusted

[ kruhs-tid ]

adjective

  1. having a crust; encrusted.
  2. (of a wine) containing a hardened deposit accumulated during aging in the bottle:

    crusted port.

  3. having the accruals of age; antique.


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Other Words From

  • crusted·ly adverb
  • un·crusted adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of crusted1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; crust, -ed 3
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Example Sentences

So during the last two weeks, Ford was consistently postholing, moving through double-crusted snow so deep she would sink to her knees with each step.

It is built not in a long bun, but in a half-loaf of fresh, tawny-crusted Italian bread.

When Damien Hirst unveiled his $100 million diamond-crusted monstrosity For the Love of God, there was outrage.

It is Japanese- and Chinese-inspired, offering tasty dishes like sesame-crusted tuna and wok-charred beef fillet.

The man is uncivil and impolitic, rough-hewn enough for leather fringe and dung-crusted boots.

Indeed, there is nothing so dangerously attractive to speaker and to audience as a fine old crusted political tag.

The real nature of which my dear guardian spoke is only hidden away, crusted over by the rough life George has led.

Our horses were poor and when I made the sun blue we crusted the buffalo and killed many with our lances.

I can see the rooms crusted with ormolu, the fauns foisted on the ceiling, the ripping rident goddesses on the walls.

It was a broken-off harrow tooth, scaled like a long, red fish with the crusted rust of years.

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