Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tarsia \Tar"si*a\, Tarsiatura \Tar`si*a*tu"ra\, n. [It.]
   A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the
   fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques,
   and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits,
   flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of
   wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of
   walnut wood.