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Each volume is handsomely and durably bound in cloth with new style colored-inlay, assorted designs, and stamped in three colors of ink.

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  1. transitive verb To set (pieces of wood or ivory, for example) into a surface, usually at the same level, to form a design.
  2. transitive verb To decorate by setting in such designs.
  3. transitive verb To insert (a photograph, for example) within a mat in a book.

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  • The Queen's Guard wore gleaming armor with silver inlay, and surcoats of deep-blue with the swan insignia of House Courcel; a dozen and more pennants fluttered in the breeze above us, marking the noble Houses that rode with Ysandre, and the gold lily of Elua on a field of green above them all. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
  • Though I now think his little church a masterpiece, its style was more than a century too late to hit my fancy at two or three and twenty; and I accused him of leaning towards that eighteenth century That taught a school   Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit   Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit Their verses tallied. —  Four Years
  • 'We designed a special encapsulated windshield tag to package Alien's M inlay, which is mounted onto the windshield of each of LIPOR's four hundred waste management vehicles,' explains Joao Vilaa, engineering manager for Creativesystems.
  • I can see them on one of Hans 'all black stealths with very subdued inlay, all Abalone, of course. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • P releases is the quality of the inlay, the paper (card?) is much thicker and shinier generally, it's a strange thing to be impressed about but to me it adds that little bit of extra value and quality to the release. —  Hello!Blog
 

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  1. Formerly also enlay; from in- + lay.
  2. from inlay, v.
 

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/ˈɪnlei/
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