Tarsia

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. intarsia
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A kind of mosaic woodwork formed by inlaying wooden panels with woods of various colors and shades, natural or artificial, so as to form architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits or flowers, etc.
  • Word Usage
    "There are superb creations of the same style in Italy, especially with inlaid work called tarsia, as at Assisi, Siena, Florence, and"
    Equivalent
    tarsiatura