Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who produces inlaid work for artistic decoration.
- noun Something laid in; something forming an inner layer, sheathing, or coating.
- noun In zoology, an entoderm: correlated with midlayer and outlayer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who inlays, or whose occupation it is to inlay.
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- noun One who
inlays .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The inlayer, an old Thranx, took satisfaction from a perfect fit on the first attempt.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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The official presented the small transparent case to the venerable Ilvenzuteck, Ryo's clanmother, who handed it proudly to the inlayer.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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The inlayer, an old Thranx, took satis-faction from a perfect fit on the first attempt.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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She applied a little saliva to shine the star, inlayer tradition.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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She applied a little saliva to shine the star, inlayer tradition.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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The official presented the small transparent case to the venerable Ilvenzuteck, Ryo's clanmother, who handed it proudly to the inlayer.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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In fact, this art is rather an elemental one, and any departure from old established rules is liable to lead the worker into a new craft; his art becomes that of the inlayer or the enameller when he attempts to use larger pieces in cloissons, or to fuse bits together by any process.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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He appears to have obtained much renown as an inlayer of musical instruments, and it is stated that Francis I., upon the occasion of his visit to Italy in 1515, prevailed upon the Viol-maker to settle in
The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart
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The floors were a triumph of the wood-inlayer's art, the chairs and tables were of gilt or of inlaid rosewood.
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All these rooms were little masterpieces of various arts, chief among which that of the wood-inlayer -- the floors, the walls, the doors being profusely inlaid with precious woods.
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