marquetry

marquetry

English

Alternative forms

• marqueterie, marquetery

Etymology

From Middle French marqueterie.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːkɪtɹi/

Noun

marquetry (countable and uncountable, plural marquetries)

1. (uncountable, woodworking) A decorative technique in which veneers of wood, ivory, metal etc. are inlaid into a wooden surface to form intricate designs.

   strawenmarquetry

2. (countable) An example of this work.
   • 1944, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, OCLC 53054407:

     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 a marquetry commode would be replaced by one in lacquer.

Translations

decorative technique

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: marqueteria f Czech: marketerie Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: marqueterie (nl) f Estonian: marketrii Finnish: marketeria French: marqueterie (fr) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Marketerie f Greek: μαρκετερί (el) f (marketerí) Hungarian: intarzia (hu), berakás (hu) Italian: intarsio (it) m Japanese: 象嵌 (ja) (ぞうがん, zōgan) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Polish: markieteria f, markietaż m Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romagnol: intêrsi m Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: please add this translation if you can Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: marquetería f Swedish: marketeri c Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• intarsia

Further reading

• marquetry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia