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.
1382. Wyclif, Ex. xxix. 23. A crustid cake spreynde with oyle.
1579–80. North, Plutarch (1676), 24. Entring upon the crusted mud, and sinking withall.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. xxiii. (1611), 170. The Crusted sort of Fishes … viz. Crabs, Lobsters, Creuises, Cuttles, Razers, Shrimpes, &c.
1665. Hooke, Microgr., 196. The pretty Insect was covered all over with a crusted shell.
a. 1745. Swift, Direct. Servants, Butler, Musty, or very foul and crusted bottles.
1873. Forest & Stream, I. 90/2. The crusted snow-drifts.
Mod. Fine old crusted port.
b. fig. (from crusted wine): Antiquated, ‘venerable’; often with admixture of the notion ‘covered with a crust of prejudice, etc.’ humorous. Hence Crustedly adv.
1831. Lytton, Godolphin, I. vii. 60. Saville thought he saw the mirror of his own crusted urbanity and scheming perseverance.
1884. T. H. Huxley, in 19th Cent., Feb., 230. England … cherishes a fine old crusted abuse as much as it does its port wine.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 28 Nov., 4/1. The lengths of absurdity to which good old crusted bigotry can go.
