Word: inlaid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lured into Leavitt and Pierce, a tobacco shop on Mass Ave., by its amazing marbles and tin cars. Upon close inspection the store offers more than kitsch and tobacco. Up a small catwalk and past a culturally-sensitive Native American cigar seller statue are five wooden tables with inlaid chess boards...
...patterns and designs. One of the longest episodes in the book recounts his intense quest for just the right emblem to paint on his canoe paddle at summer camp. Citing an occasion when his father gave him a $20 bill, Kirstein remembers "the papery cash, its tough fibrous thinness inlaid with bits of red and green silk." The dreamy young man did not take much interest in academics, but he passed Harvard's entrance exam anyway. Once enrolled, he writes, "I felt like a minnow with the freedom to swim in whomever's wake I wanted...
...Maya filed their teeth (it's unclear whether they used an anesthetic), sometimes into a T shape and sometimes to a point. They also inlaid their teeth with small, round plaques of jade or pyrite. According to Coe, young men painted themselves black until marriage and later engaged in ritual tattooing and scarring...
...suited as glazes for the grey stoneware used in Korea. Decorative techniques such as carving, incising and molding were employed in these Koryo ceramics as well. Later in the Koryo celadon tradition, in a complete departure from Chinese ceramics, Korean potters so mastered the celadon technique that they incorporated inlaid black and white slip--or liquid clay--designs into the grey stoneware bodies for added decoration. The inlaid celadon wares of the Koryo Dynasty in the Henderson Collection are breathtaking examples of a uniquely Korean...
...were dressed in silk-lined caftans emblazoned with tulips and pomegranates and rocked to sleep in hazelnut cradles plated in silver and sprinkled with emeralds and diamonds. When they went to war, they donned conical helmets decorated with floral patterns and studded with turquoise and rubies, fought with ivory-inlaid muskets and swords and slept in satin-lined field tents. Even their horses pranced around in gold-plated headgear and golden stirrups...