crusted

From crust +‎ -ed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹʌstɪd/

crusted

1. Having or consisting of a crust.
   • 1852, W. H. Hooper, “Lieutenant Hooper's Journal”, in Arctic Expedition, page 174:

     The snow had all fallen from the trees, and the snow was very crusted by the action of the sun by day and succeeding frost at night, but not sufficiently to bear our weight.·

   • 1914, Franz Beyschlag, Johan Herman Lie Vogt, Paul Krusch, The deposits of the useful minerals & rocks, page 114:

     Concentric crusted structure may be formed in very different ways .

   • 1980, Mario Francisco Lecuona Valenzuela, Theoretical and Experimental Models of Infiltration Into Crusted Soils, page 14:

     Theories explaining infiltration into layered or crusted soils have been developed .

   • 2008, Theresa Roberts, ABC's of Bumps & Bruises:

     If a sore is very crusted, you can soak it in warm, soapy water to loosen the crust.

   • 2015, Andy Rhodes, Moon Texas:

     Backstreet is particularly known for its "crusted” dishes, including mustard-crusted salmon and sesame-crusted shrimp.

2. (medicine) Characterized by crusty patches.
   • 1896, Paul Gerson Unna, The Histopathology of the Diseases of the Skin, page 563:

     The ulcerated form of the tertiary syphilide, like that of the papular, almost invariably developes from the crusted modifications.

   • 1898, New Sydenham Society, Selected Monographs on Dermatology, page 55:

     From these squamous forms the others may develop by intensification of the inflammation; and thus we may get, on the one hand, the scabbed or crusted varieties (many cases of so-called psoriasis gyrata and annulata , and many dry eczemas), or, on the other hand, the weeping varieties (ecz. seb. madidans capitis, aurium, genitalium, flexuosum) .

   • 1903 August 19, Dr. G. N. Meachen, “West London Hospital”, in Medical Press and Circular, volume 127, page 194:

     A girl, aet. 11, came with a very crusted, neglected condition of the scalp which her mother stated had been present for about a month.

   • 2013, Bhushan Kumar, Somesh Gupta, Sexually Transmitted Infections, page 627:

     Crusted scabies is associated with greater transmissibility than scabies. No controlled therapeutic studies for crusted scabies have been conducted, and the appropriate treatment remains unclear.

3. Having a hardened or rough demeanor; crusty or gruff.
   • 1894, Thomas Hardy, Life's Little Ironies: A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled a Few Crusted Characters:

     (see title)

   • 2009, Owen Sheers, A Poet's Guide to Britain:

     These are the crusted men Of the sea, measuring time By tide-fall, knowing the changeless Seasons, the lasting honeysuckle Of the sea.

   • 2021, Mark Shaw, Collateral Damage:

     Unlike her watered-down authobiography, Times to Remember, Higham captures the essence of a crusted woman who had to be tough in order to put up with a boisterous husband like Joe Sr.

4. Extremely conservative; hidebound; firmly established and inflexible.
   • 1901, “Championship Venues”, in Golf Illustrated, volume 10, page 154:

     For all that, it is the part of a very crusted Tory to affirm, as we all have heard it affirmed, that the worst seaside course is better than the best inland.

   • 1911 December 15, Earnest Henry Starling, “Sixty-Ninth Day”, in Reports from Commissioner, Inspectors, and Others:

     The scheme recommended in my memorandum is simpler in one respect, i.e., that you do not try and break down this very crusted system of each hospital for itself.

   • 1918, William T. Brewster, “Introduction”, in Far from the Madding Crowd, page xxxi:

     Except in certain passage in Tess and Jude, and possibly one or two in Two on a Tower, he is dealing with the relations of individuals in a very crusted old background of nature and custom .

   • 1924, Cyril Falls, The Critic's Armoury, page 152:

     And if M. de Regnier's studies in vers libres are for the conservative very modern music, none but very crusted conservatives will fail to realize that they are music.

5. (of wine) Aged and full of sediment.
   • 1825 October, “Wines: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, &c.”, in The London Magazine, volume 3, page 218:

     As such, it certainly possesses some advantages to them beyond its difference of price—as it deposits the colour in the course of a year or two, and then passes for a very "fine old crusted wine."

   • 1852, John Stedman, “Old Jack”, in Ainsworth's Magazine, volume 22, page 232:

     I was returning at a late hour one evening from dining with a gentleman whose acquaintance I had recently formed, and was enjoying the common effects of a substantial repast and a few glasses of crusted port, in a considerable increase of the heroical faculties, and a more than wonted inclination to enterprise.

   • 1972, Osmar White, A Guide and Directory to Australian Wine, page 217:

     Heavily crusted wine may have to be decanted from the bottle — more to improve its appearance than enhance its flavour.

crusted

1. simple past and past participle of crust

• crudest, decrust, decurts, reducts