croûte

Meaning

1. crust (of e.g. bread)
2. crust
3. scab

Concepts

crust

scab

rind

daub

skin

Earth’s crust

form

fort

fur

bark

incrustation

layer

muck

scale

scurf

shell

🐚

pastry case

hard outer covering

casing

crusts

deposit

encrustation

eschar

Synonyms

escarre

pelure

coque

🐚

eschare

écorce

gale

peau

pie

zeste

bectance

boustifaille

cortex

couenne

croûte terrestre

pitance

tambouille

bouette

gibelotte

pelons

becquetance

🍽️

bâfre

boulot

bouffetance

chère

constituer

dartre

exanthème

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kʁut/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French crouste, from Old French croste, cruste, from Latin crusta (“hard outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”).

Sentences

La base de la croûte terrestre fond à son tour .

The base of the earth's crust melts in turn.