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1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. viii. 304 Concealed and over-encrusted..in the course of generations.

1930 R. J. Priest From Chariot to Car iii. 29 The builders fell into great error in over-encrusting their work with every possible decorative device.

1962 Hansard Commons (Electronic ed.) 28 Mar. 1389 It [sc. the House of Lords] is over-encrusted with ancient pageantry and is becoming a sort of museum piece.

2000 Newsmakers No. 4. 236 Jim Crace in the Times Literary Supplement criticized the book as being ‘over-encrusted with folksy hostility toward the twentieth century, always equating changes with ruin’.