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Marqueterie

noun
1.
Inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture.  Synonym: marquetry.






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"Marqueterie" Quotes from Famous Books



... at once to a corner cupboard in the parlour, inlaid with tulips in Dutch marqueterie, and containing the Major's priceless eggshell china. To be sure, if the French landed, she—weak woman that she was—could not defend this treasure. But might not the Major blame her for ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... scarcely disturbed the tranquillity, the scene was set beyond the reach of the sounds and daily affairs of this world, and the actors held in a medium unshakable as that which holds the ghostly life of bees in amber and birds in marqueterie. ...
— The Ghost Girl • H. De Vere Stacpoole

... boards often served other purposes too, many being beautifully inlaid and reversible; thus the older game boards were fitted with slides for backgammon, provision being made for chess, merelles, and fox and geese, the oak of which they were often made being relieved with rich marqueterie (tarsia) of ...
— Chats on Household Curios • Fred W. Burgess



Words linked to "Marqueterie" :   inlay



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