marquetry

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Ah! the Dutch marquetry, the French cabinetry, the Belgian brassware, the curious panellings, the oak-frames, the faience, the silver candlesticks, the Amsterdam toys in silver, the Antwerp incunables, and the famous tenth-century illuminated manuscript in half-uncials!

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  1. noun Material, such as wood or ivory, inlaid piece by piece into a wood surface in an intricate design and veneered to another surface, especially of furniture, for decoration.

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  • The chairs and lounges were marquetry,—satin-wood and mahogany,—with seats and backs of blue brocade. —  Richard Carvel
  • Iranian artists demonstrate for visitors how their woodworks, paintings, calligraphies, caricatures, marquetry, glassworks and embroideries are created. —  Sweetness & Light
  • A Louis XVI-style marble-top side cabinet with gilt bronze marquetry (circa 1920s) gaveled for —  Antique News News!
  • "Rather than masking off the purfling [marquetry] while the rest of the resonator was being stained, I asked them to stain it the same as the maple on the rest of the instrument," Leadon said. —  Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News
  • These North Italian cabinets were often covered with intarsia or marquetry, which by its subdued gaiety retrieved somewhat their heavy stateliness of form. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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  1. French marqueterie, from Old French, from marqueter, to checker, from marque, mark, ultimately from Old Norse merki, mark; see merg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French marqueterie, from marqueter, spot, inlay, from marque, a mark: see mark.
 

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/ˈmɑrkɛtri/
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