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/ˈɪnˌɫeɪ/
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VERB
- decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal
NOUN
- a decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface
- (dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place
How To Use inlay In A Sentence
- It consisted of delicately inlaying colored clays into white bodied pottery.
- From the tastefully appointed mosaic inlays and concaved walls adorned with statues and his paintings, the mosaic swimming pool and Japanese garden with plenty of creature comforts, make for unforgettable ambiance. San Antonio
- On the tabletop inlays and the ivory panels, the predators include griffins and sphinxes, composite creatures based on the leonine form, while the bowl depicts lions in positions of attack.
- The inner surface can be scraped off, sliced thin and used as an inlay for jewellery items.
- Tasteful engraving highlighted these silver mounts and inlays, as well as the case-hardened lock.
- Finlay Martin is a retired farmer in Ardlethan, a very small town north-west of Wagga in New South Wales.
- As if Ian Hamilton Finlay were not to be remembered here, he appears, in the form of a reference to his home, a little country estate which he filled with literary sculpture of his devisal, much as Simon Cutts has decorated his quaint Irish dwelling, Coracle, and outbuildings with words, turning edifice into literature. Dbqp: visualizing poetics
- The shells were exported for manufacture into buttons, millions of them, and for ornamental inlays in wood.
- `Tell me, has my room still got that weird old bed with the inlay stuff? COMPULSION
- The techniques involved, including repoussé relief, inlays, enamelling, filigree, engraving, and hatching, are those of exceptionally skilled designer-craftsmen, who held a deservedly important position in society.