The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word INLAID
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More clues leading to the result INLAID
- Like decorative work that’s not outstanding
- Treated nail – one with diamonds embedded
- Current number bedded or embedded
- Australian enters wearing hat with patterned ornamentation
- Like marquetry with fashionable Dali design
- At home, son must keep one set
- Decorated as home-made eggs?
- Like marquetry with fashionable styling of Dali
- Signal regularly and help is dropped in
- Embedded with vanguard of Indian navy, ring back
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What does INLAID mean?
INLAID adjective- (of a design) Set into a surface in a decorative pattern.
- (of the surface of an item) Having an inset decorative pattern.
- To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form a decorative design.
- To place an inlay in a tooth.