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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The guitar has a mother-of-pearl inlay on its fret board.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A gaze, cool as the round marble inlay of a chair back.
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Again the patina is a deep black and contrasts with brightly polished silver, brass and gold inlay decoration.
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But domestic social pressures, with their own inlay of politics, are generally more powerful.
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However, its hardness makes it slightly less versatile when it comes to surface decoration such as inlays.
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I used a very interesting rectangular frame, with a marquetry inlay .
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Prominent strips of inlay were left unfinished; awkward patches of pink sandstone intrude into the glistening white of the dome.
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The dazzling inlay of precious stones was long ago picked out with daggers.
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The silver inlays show up as pale areas because they are denser than brass to X-rays.