Crusted. World English Historical Dictionary

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ppl. a. [f. CRUST sb. and v. + -ED.] Having or covered with a crust, encrusted; † crustaceous (obs.); that has deposited a crust, as old port or other wine.

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1382.  Wyclif, Ex. xxix. 23. A crustid cake spreynde with oyle.

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1579–80.  North, Plutarch (1676), 24. Entring upon the crusted mud, and sinking withall.

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1610.  Guillim, Heraldry, III. xxiii. (1611), 170. The Crusted sort of Fishes … viz. Crabs, Lobsters, Creuises, Cuttles, Razers, Shrimpes, &c.

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1665.  Hooke, Microgr., 196. The pretty Insect was covered all over with a crusted shell.

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a. 1745.  Swift, Direct. Servants, Butler, Musty, or very foul and crusted bottles.

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1873.  Forest & Stream, I. 90/2. The crusted snow-drifts.

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Mod.  Fine old crusted port.

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  b.  fig. (from crusted wine): Antiquated, ‘venerable’; often with admixture of the notion ‘covered with a crust of prejudice, etc.’ humorous. Hence Crustedly adv.

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1831.  Lytton, Godolphin, I. vii. 60. Saville thought he saw the mirror of his own crusted urbanity and scheming perseverance.

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1884.  T. H. Huxley, in 19th Cent., Feb., 230. England … cherishes a fine old crusted abuse as much as it does its port wine.

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1888.  Pall Mall Gaz., 28 Nov., 4/1. The lengths of absurdity to which good old crusted bigotry can go.

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