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单词 excrustation
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excrustationn.

/ɛkskrʌˈsteɪʃən/
Etymology: < medieval Latin excrustātiōn-em < excrustāre , < ex- (see ex- prefix1) + crusta crust n., covering.
rare.
The stripping a book of its covering of precious metal.
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1844 S. R. Maitland Dark Ages xiii. 218 Charity and need, as well as cupidity were likely to produce what was then termed excrustation, and to risk..the destruction of the manuscript. [Maitland refers in note to Vit. Aldhelmi, Die uno xii textus Evangeliorum..et auro nudata et excrustata sunt.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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