incrustation
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnkɹʌsˈteɪʃən/
Audio (Berkshire, UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
incrustation (countable and uncountable, plural incrustations)
- The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.
- 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.
- A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.
- Anything inlaid or embedded.
- (figuratively) An accumulated characteristic of a person that disguises their true nature.
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, OCLC 1000392275, page 244:
- Her reception of her brother was most affectionate—there are times when the most artificial, by habit, become natural; when the early memories of the heart, for a short time at least, spring up as a fountain of living waters, overflowing the selfish vanities and conventional incrustations which the world has planted—giving honest smiles to the countenance; artless, yet loving words to the tongue; and the gratified heart seems restored to a new childhood.
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Translations
incrustation
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French
Etymology
From Latin incrustatio (“encrustation”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.kʁys.ta.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Noun
incrustation f (plural incrustations)
- incrustation
- (cinematography) chromakey
Further reading
- “incrustation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.