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marquetry
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
marqueterie \mar"que*te*rie\, marquetry \mar"quet*ry\, n. [F. marqueterie, from marqueter to checker, inlay, fr. marque mark, sign; of German origin. See Mark a sign.] Inlaid work; work inlaid with pieces of wood, shells, ivory, veneer, and the like, of several colors, fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from French marqueterie "inlaid work," from marqueter "to checker" (14c.), frequentative of marquer, from marque (see marque).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable woodworking English) A decorative technique in which veneers of wood, ivory, metal etc. are inlaid into a wood surface to form intricate designs. 2 (context countable English) An example of this work
WordNet
n. inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture [syn: marqueterie]
Wikipedia
Marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns, designs or pictures. The technique may be applied to case furniture or even seat furniture, to decorative small objects with smooth, veneerable surfaces or to freestanding pictorial panels appreciated in their own right. Parquetry is very similar in technique to marquetry that utilizes pieces of veneer in simple repeating geometric shapes to form tiled patterns such as would cover a floor (parquet), or forming basketweave or brickwork patterns, trelliswork and the like.
Marquetry (and parquetry too) differs from the more ancient craft of inlay, or intarsia, in which a solid body of one material is cut out to receive sections of another to form the surface pattern. The word derives from a Middle French word meaning "inlaid work".
Usage examples of "marquetry".
Elsewhere a carved red-lacquer chair stood beside a seventeenth-century cabinet decorated with marquetry of pewter and tortoise shell on a palisander ground.
Another team were following them up, spraying the drying cement with a gelatin mucus that shimmered with oil-slick marquetry until it hardened into the distinctive silverish hue.
They circumnavigated a continent of carved furniture, beneath tottery mountains of marquetry, past veins of veneer, lodes of inlay, eroded towers of tapestry and trapunto over sheer cliffs of stacked cabinetry, bronze fittings, and mirrored surfaces, all scaled and corrupted by time.
Reedy music sounded, the paired apices and luxuriously dressed females moved about the shining marquetry floor in pre-set arrangements, their looks of pride and humility equally distasteful, while the servant males moved carefully around like machines, making sure each glass was kept full, each plate covered.
The chimneypiece was of a rococo design with candle holders, gilded woodwork and a vast mirrored wall, and the table they sat at was of walnut with a marquetry border and capable of accommodating a dozen people.
Joyeuse was standing at the window in the Music Room, one hand resting on the exquisite marquetry of the fortepiano lid, gazing out at the park beyond.
The wall opposite the bed was occupied by a nine-foot walnutand-gilt armoire and a wide carved fruitwood dresser inlaid with marquetry herbs and flowers.
We produce nothing comparable to the great Oriental carpets, Persian glass, tiles, and illuminated books, Arabian leatherwork, Spanish marquetry, Hindu textiles, Chinese porcelain and embroidery, Japanese lacquer and brocade, French tapestries, or Inca jewelry.
It was a large room with an ornamental plaster ceiling, panelled walls, and furnished with a vast sideboard with a good deal of marquetry, an oblong table of some size with chairs in the Chippendale style, and a long case clock also covered in marquetry, and all of them in mahogany.
Gorgeously decorated pomanders, pounce boxes, and vinaigrettes were clustered on a small marquetry table.