| 单词 | to encrust into |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto encrust into 1. transitive. To ornament (a surface) by overlaying it with a crust of precious material. Also to encrust into. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > fashion with artistic skill or decoration [verb (transitive)] > cover with ornamental work fret1340 lay?a1366 overfretc1440 to work over1542 parget1576 encrust1641 incrustate1728 α. β. 1641 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 35 The church of the Jesuits is..a glorious fabric without and within, wholly incrusted with marble.1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. liii. 295 The walls were incrusted with marbles of various colours.1885 C. J. Stone Christianity before Christ 44 Vases incrusted with diamonds and lapis lazuli.1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xii. 262 The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 142 As if the whole tree were encrusted with molten jewellery. a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 196 A staircase encrusted with jasper. 1875 C. D. E. Fortnum Maiolica xi. 101 The painted and incised bacini, which are encrusted into her church towers. < as lemmas |
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