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marquetry, marqueterie|ˈmɑːkɪtrɪ|
Forms: 6 marketrey, merquetry, 7 marquettrie, (marhutery), 6– marqueterie, 7– marquetry, (-ie).
[a. F. marqueterie (1416 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. marqueter (1386) to variegate, f. marque mark n.1]
Inlaid work, esp. as used for the decoration of furniture.
1563Shute Archit. F j b, Fine woodes in marketrey. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xi[i]. (Arb.) 108 All set in merquetry with letters of blew Saphire and Topas artificially cut and entermingled. 1596Danett tr. Comines (1614) 279 The curious worke called Musaique, or Marqueterie. 1601Holland Pliny I. 49 Marquetry and other inlaid works. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 138 Of that kind the Arabs called Marhutery, but the Jews Mosaick. 1817Moore Lalla R., Veiled Proph. (ed. 2) 89 The flashing of their swords' rich marquetry. 1847Disraeli Tancred ii. xiii, A large table of ivory marquetry. 1881Young Every man his own Mechanic §39 Hungarian Ash..suitable as a groundwork for marquetry.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1849Thackeray Pendennis xxxvii, Marqueterie tables. 1851in Illustr. Lond. News (1854) 5 Aug. 119/2 Occupations of People..marqueterie-inlayer. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 159 Tunbridge marquetry ware. 1879Knight Dict. Mech. 2803 Yacca-wood [used for] Cabinet and marquetry work.
Hence † ˈmarquetrize v. intr., (nonce-wd.) to make inlaid work: in quot. fig.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey To Rdr. 3 What curious-quaint Em[b]ellishments diffuse? Musaick-Mazes-Marquetrizing Muse? |