0 having a decorative pattern put into a surface, or forming a pattern like this:
These mosaics are art composed of small inlaid pieces of ceramic tile, glass, and stones to form a larger image.
Sometimes, inlaid eyes and teeth added lively qualities to the masks.
The pattern of light shining through palm-fronds onto water becomes "diamond-plots" (l. 85), and the sky is "inlaid" with stars.
Swollen with pride, the ruler of the night was seated on his throne inlaid with jewels.
There is nothing here like the inlaid busywork of layered and suspended voice-leading found in the accompaniment to my first three examples.
As some examples show, the depressions of the eyes and mouth were originally inlaid, giving them a lifelike quality, but making it impossible to see through the sockets.
