The word "tessera" in example sentences.nounĬomplex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton nounĪ small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics nounĪ small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.Ĭomplex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on TritonĪ wild and crazy person who is very ingenious and a straight faced comic but who also has trouble finding motivation out of day to day life. nounĪ small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
nounĪ small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes. Same as tessera hospitalis (which see, below). nounĪ small square of bone, wood, or the like used in ancient Rome as a ticket of admission to the theater, etc. Tesseræ are small in surface, and are thick in proportion, and therein differ from tiles, which are large and flat.
nounĪ small piece of hard material, generally square in plan, used in combination with others of similar character for making mosaics.
In zoology, a small, squarish plate of bone such as those forming the carapace of armadillos and glyptodons. One of the small squares of stone or glass used in making mosaic patterns.
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