inlaid
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- adjective
- /ɪnˈleɪd/
- Once a week, they ate lunch together in the park in front of the building, where there were concrete tables with inlaid chessboards.
- inlaid marble
- inlaid wood
- inlaid eyes
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Watch on YouTubeAnd the jewelry is magnificent with inlaid garnet croissant work.
- And the jewelry is magnificent with inlaid garnet croissant work.
Examples
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I'm the proud owner of this ring, which is inlaid with both meteorite and T Rex bone.
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Inlaid marble (opus sectile) had long been favored in Constantinople for luxurious floor pavements.
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Look at the parquet floors that are all inlaid and original.
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Their inlaid design was of the finest craftsmanship.
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The inlaid maple panels fit the music room as if they had been made for it.
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So we have this beautiful silver gilt with niello inlaid all over it like this.
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And the jewelry is magnificent with inlaid garnet croissant work.
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One has an inlaid pearl setting off an ivory cameo of the Last Supper.
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The artist created a stunning tabletop with an inlaid mosaic of different colors and materials.
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The jewelry box had an inlaid design that shimmered in the light.
Synonyms
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Covered with small things that make something look more beautiful
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Covered with a repeated design of lines, shapes, or colors
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A surface covered with small shapes like tiles that fit closely together
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Having a decorative pattern woven into cloth or fabric
Antonyms
How Decorated
Surface Forms
Morphology
inlaid = laid (semi-transparent) = in + lay + laid
The prefix 'in-' suggests 'into' or 'inside', but the specific meaning of decorative embedding is not immediately obvious.
Etymology
Inlaid comes from the prefix in- meaning 'into' and the verb lay, which means 'to put'. So something inlaid has pieces 'laid into' its surface as decoration.