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Inlay: In furniture, it's decorative patterns or figural designs created with
pieces of different coloured woods, or ivory, bone, shell, brass etc. which
have been set into cut-out sections of the base, solid wood (see Marquetry).
Similarly, in firearms, pieces of precious metals like gold, silver, and
platinum, and ivory, are used in the stock as decoration and embellishment.
Inscrolled foot: A carved foot (especially found on furniture of the late
C17th/early C18th) which usually appears on an otherwise straight leg, and
which curls under and inwards a lot like a hockey-stick. (See Braganza and
Outscrolled foot)