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‖ tarsia|ˈtɑːsɪə|
Also 7 tersia.
[a. It. tarsia ‘marquetry or small inlaid workes of diuers colours of bone, horne, wood or Iuorie’ (Florio).]
A kind of mosaic inlaid work in wood of various colours and shades. Also attrib. as tarsia-work.
1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 138 But if Mosaick be in wood 'tis called Tersia: the several pieces of which are boil'd and dyed into what colour the workman fancies. 1875J. H. Pollen Anc. & Mod. Furn. 28 The wood veneered or inlaid with marquetry or tarsia work of ivory, ebony, box, palm. 1883F. M. Peard Contrad. I. 228 Cortina..with its great schools of filigree and tarsia work. 1901J. Black's Carp. & Build., Home Handicr. 61 Tarsia..was a species of wood inlay or mosaic of which the Italians of the late Mediæval period were the great exponents. |