hardcrusted

Having a hard crust.

The pushcart Alleys. And then better and better with the bananas and apples and oranges. Soon green salads with olive oil and the good, hardcrusted bread like—back there.

The piedmont surface was now more hardcrusted than before and gleamed like plates of roughly etched and scoured metal.

Tough; stubborn; hard-nosed.

Joined in a Deputation of the Antislavery Society to Mr Hewens, Under Secretary for the Colonies, asking for a fuller enquiry into the shootings, finings, &c in Ceylon. We got no redress from this hardcrusted imperialist.

In later years, after the Second World War, the larger companies sent a new generation of youthful executives into the region for the purpose of ameliorating this deeply rooted animosity, but even their Rotary-learned jocularity and genial expansiveness could not soften the bias of men whose aversion had become hardcrusted in the heat of the bitter union drives.