inlays

Noun

inlay (plural inlays)

1. The material placed within a different material in the form of a decoration.
   • The table and two base pedestals cost more than $4,000. The pedestals are described as having “hand applied ebonized inlay with bell flowers topped by hand carved scrolls and a fluted column.”2018 February 28, Rene Marsh, Ross Levitt, “See HUD’s $31,000 mahogany dining set”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2022
2. A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place.
3. The piece of paper or the booklet inside the case of a compact disc, DVD, or cassette.
   • Putting it all together: the cassette’s been run through a labelling machine, and now this Heath Robinsonesque device adds the inlay and the box in one swift operation, taking about three seconds for each cassette.1987, Barnaby Page, How to copy half a million cassettes (in Crash magazine issue 47, December 1987)

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