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marquetry

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FromMiddle Frenchmarqueterie.

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marquetry (countable anduncountable,pluralmarquetries)

  1. (uncountable, woodworking) A decorative technique in whichveneers ofwood,ivory,metal etc. areinlaid into a wooden surface to form intricate designs.
    strawenmarquetry
    • 2023 October 7, Jim Pickard, “It's not government that creates jobs”, inFT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
      Wearing a dress in Labour's ruby red, the shadow chancellor joins me at a circular table amid the art deco glamour of Bettys' subterranean Spindler room, which is adorned with numerous stained-wood “marquetry pictures”.
  2. (countable) An example of this work.
    • 1944,W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 1, inThe Razor’s Edge [], 1st American edition, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Doran & Co.,→OCLC, section ii,page 5:
      Unkind people asserted that everything in his apartment was for sale and that after he had invited wealthy Americans for an excellent lunch, with vintage wines, one or two of his valuable drawings would disappear, or amarquetry commode would be replaced by one in lacquer.

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decorative technique

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