crusted /ˈkɹʌstɪd/ adjective5 •Having or consisting of a crust.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.· — 1852 •Characterized by crusty patches.The ulcerated form of the tertiary syphilide, like that of the papular, almost invariably developes from the crusted modifications. — 1896 •Of wine, aged and full of sediment.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." — 1825 •Having a hardened or rough demeanor; crusty or gruff.These are the crusted men Of the sea, measuring time By tide-fall, knowing the changeless Seasons, the lasting honeysuckle Of the sea. — 2009 •Extremely conservative; hidebound; firmly established and inflexible.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. — 1901
