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decrustare

decrustare [LL] , a to strip (bread) of crust. b to strip of adornment, despoil; c (fig.). a 13‥ panis monachi, ~atus secundum consuetudinem, debet ponderare lx s. et xx d. Cart. Rams. III 159.  b s1191 quicquid ‥ thesauri in auro et in argento et lapidibus pretiosis in abbatiis ‥ inventum est ‥ acceperunt, adeo ut cruces et feretra ~arentur Ann. Wav. 248; s1193 ~ata sunt et feretra necnon cruces et philacteria Ann. Cestr. 42; 1297 [Scoti] domos, villas et castra, ecclesias atque monasteria ‥ incendiorum voragine ad areas et rudera ~atosque parietes redigunt Reg. Cant. 529 (= Conc. II 233a); si ecclesia exusta fuit, ita quod parietes sint combusti ‥ vel notabiliter eciam ~ati J. Burgh PO IX 1.  c R. Niger Chr. II 167 (v. annihilare 2b).

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