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marquetries

marquetries is the plural of marquetry.

Meaning of marquetry

Noun

marquetry (countable and uncountable, plural marquetries)

  1. (uncountable) A decorative technique in which veneers of wood, ivory, metal etc. are inlaid into a wooden surface to form intricate designs.
    • strawen marquetry
  2. (countable) An example of this work.
    • Unkind people asserted that everything in his apartment was for sale and that after he had invited wealthy Americans for an excellent lunch, with vintage wines, one or two of his valuable drawings would disappear, or a marquetry commode would be replaced by one in lacquer.1944, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 1, in The Razor’s Edge […], 1st American edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., →OCLC, section ii, page 5

Questions about marquetries

What is marquetries the plural of?
Marquetries is the plural of marquetry.

Words near marquetries in the dictionary

  1. marqueteries
  2. marqueters
  3. marquetery
  4. marqueteur
  5. marqueteurs
  6. marquetries
  7. marquetry
  8. Marquette
  9. Marquette County
  10. Marquettes
  11. Marquez

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marquetries (page history and authors); marquetry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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