seaweed marquetry
noun
marquetry having the form of symmetrical, foliate scrolls, as on English cabinetwork of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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Nearby words
- seawards,
- seaware,
- seawater,
- seaway,
- seaweed,
- seaworthy,
- sebaceous,
- sebaceous adenoma,
- sebaceous cyst,
- sebaceous epithelioma
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