marqueterie

Miss Marty's thoughts flew back at once to a corner cupboard in the parlour, inlaid with tulips in Dutch marqueterie, and containing the

The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Rectangular, two doors, fan motif, walnut and marqueterie de paille

The Art of Yves Saint Laurent 2009

Leaning back in a marqueterie chair and gazing down his uplifted nose at the sky-blue walls plastered with gold frames, he was noticeably silent.

In Chancery 2004

Soames slowly passed a little inlaid paperknife over the smooth surface of a marqueterie table; then, without looking at his nephew, he began:

In Chancery 2004

Forty-five years since he had laid its foundations, and there it was, as full of marqueterie as ever.

Swan Song 2004

This time the little dog scurried round the entire room, avoiding the legs of chairs by a series of miracles, then, halting by a marqueterie stand, it stood on its hind legs and began to eat the pampas grass.

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

The two were seated side by side on an arrangement in marqueterie which looked like three silvery pink chairs made one, with a low tea-table in front of them.

In Chancery 2004

After putting her baby into its cot Fleur had gone to the marqueterie bureau in the little sanctuary that would have been called a boudoir in old days.

The Silver Spoon 2004

I am most charmingly lodged here, the walls of my room are all marqueterie and they have put sofa and bed, &c., as the

Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir Lady Biddulph of Ledbury

The lamps were lit, and an open Dutch silver spirit-case stood, with some siphons of soda-water and large cut-glass tumblers, on a little marqueterie table.

The Picture of Dorian Gray 1931