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Answer for the clue "Marquetry (var.) ", 4 letters:
buhl

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Buhl is a decorative type of marquetry of patterned inlays of brass or tortoiseshell, or (occasionally) other materials, used on chiefly French furniture, from the 17th century. The word is the German spelling of Boulle and is used chiefly in American English. ...

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Population (2000): 3985 Housing Units (2000): 1689 Land area (2000): 1.683518 sq. miles (4.360292 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.683518 sq. miles (4.360292 sq. km) FIPS code: 10810 Located within: Idaho ...

Usage examples of buhl.

Gold veins were capricious, but none of the Buhl Mining men cared to gamble unnecessarily.

He meant to keep this claim, risking all for duty and compassion, while his own good sense of preservation suggested that Miss Braddock was perfect insurance for him to keep what Buhl so badly wanted.

Jealousy, envy, fear of losing him, fear of never having had him, apprehension over the differences in their cultures, the differences in their experience and feelings, the suddenly real threat of Buhl Mining versus claims 1014-15, all contrived to generate the hysterical scream.

Blaze as his wife and standing up to a menacing conglomerate like Buhl Mining as well?

She also knew, eventually, they must face her father, Buhl Mining, the uncertain future.

Penobscot Building and the second Buhl Building colored like an Indian belt, the New Union Trust Building, the Cadillac Tower, the Fisher Building with its gilded roof.

Then she pokes the fire, draws a little buhl table close up to the hearth, spreads a white cloth, sets out the plates, puts the spoons by them, and enchanted, impatient, with flushed complexion, leans back in an armchair.

It fitted exactly into the central wall panel above the narrow buhl cabinet, and filled exactly its right space in the composition and balance of the room.

James watched, fascinated, as the duke tapped his fingertips together, his dark eyes seeming to stare at a delicate Dresden figure atop the buhl cabinet in the corner.

Winifred, whom he noticed next to the furniture, was sitting at her Buhl bureau with a letter in her hand.

The delicate china on the tall chimney-piece, the few bits of Buhl and Vernis Martin about the room, the vision through the open doorway of the supper-table spread with a fine white cloth, and sparkling with silver, all spoke of fastidious tastes, of habits of luxury and elegance, which the spirit of Equality and Anarchy had not succeeded in eradicating.

It is clearly essential to the interest of this theory that the thought or rule alluded to by Buhler should not need to be expressed in words, for if it is expressed in words it is immediately capable of being dealt with on the lines with which the behaviourists have familiarized us.

The things that were neither bureaux, beds, bags, boxes, baskets nor bibelot-tables could usually be described as big, black, brown or buhl or, at a pinch, as being bedroom or boudoir furniture, and since every shelf, drawer and pigeonhole in every object was crammed full of newspaper-cuttings, letters and assorted souvenirs, the searchers soon found their heads, legs and backs aching with effort.

There was a minute's delay while the colonel told them to release the truck driver and search the inside of the truck for any personal luggage Buhl might have been forced to abandon there -- they found his overnight bag almost immediately and stuffed his gun into it -- then Szendro opened the front right-hand door of the car and gestured Reynolds to his seat.

Buhler, characteristically, toadied to Heydrich: 'He had only one favour to ask - that the Jewish question in the General Government be solved as rapidly as possible.