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Meanings of marqueterie in English
Inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture.
Synonyms
Examples for "marquetry"
Examples for "marquetry"
1
The ceiling was a marvelous marquetry of many and wondrously harmonious colors.
2
Your question about that marquetry table troubled me more and more this evening.
3
Good old work-shecould almost hear Dad saying it-beautifulmarquetry.
4
Inlay was often imitated; the elaborate marquetry cabinets in Sta.
5
Franz led him to a spot on the wall hidden by a marquetry cabinet.
Usage of marqueterie in English
1
Here we see Arabesque ceilings, marqueterie woodwork, stucco panelling, and the elegant horse-shoe arches.
2
He turned emphatically toward Faversham, leaning hard on a marqueterie table that stood between them:
3
This was a very pretty marqueterie cabinet; it stood against the wall, and Rosa had set her heart upon it.
4
A purple inkstand of Sèvre ,anda highly-tooled morocco portfolio of the same colour, reposed on a marqueterie table, and that was all.
5
Not a soul was there, unless some one hid and spied behind a carved and gilded Tunisian bed or a marqueterie screen from Bagdad.
6
As he took his latch-key out of the lock, and turned up the electric light, he saw two handsome marqueterie chairs standing in the hall.
7
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.
Frequent collocations
Marqueterie through the time