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The corpus record — Latin

in-crusto

in-crusto · v. a

to cover with a coat

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What it meant

in-crusto — Lewis & Short

in-crusto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to cover with a coat or rind, to incrust (mostly anteand post-class.): ollam sapā et farre, Varr. R. R. 3, 14, 5: tota maceria levi lapide aut tectoria intrinsecus incrustetur, id. ib. 15, 1: sincerum vas, i. e. to daub over virtues with the names of vices, Hor. S. 1, 3, 56: parietem, Dig. 8, 2, 12.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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