intarsia.

1. Decoration made by fitting pieces of wood or another material into a surface to form a design.

2. A knitting technique using separate yarn supplies to work different colored areas of a pattern.

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Words that belong together

• wood intarsia
• intarsia panel

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Wood intarsia formed a faded landscape on the cabinet door.

The intarsia panel lost a small piece each winter.

Usage notes

Primary category: gothic. Forms: Usually mass noun; plural intarsias for works. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.