terrazzo

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Inside, a terrazzo-floored lobby led to the 920-seat auditorium, where chandeliers and draped walls added elegance.

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  1. noun A flooring material of marble or stone chips set in mortar and polished when dry.

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  • Consume while sitting on the front terrazzo and you'll think you're in Italy.
  • Terrazzo Floors - Thirty-one images of popular Phillies Alumni outlined in action poses are featured in an awardwinning terrazzo tile floor in the Suite and Club Entrance behind Home Plate on the Main Concourse Level.
  • In fact, the new Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce building, designed to be a LEED-certified "Green building," incorporates broken glass in the floor terrazzo - sanded down smooth, of course. —  wacotrib - Latest News Headlines
  • These include decorative seamless resins, waterproof car park decking, resin terrazzo, seamless anti microbial flooring, corrosion protection, self-levelling cements, underfloor heating and acoustic systems. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Flowcrete's two-hour flooring concept, Flowfast is benefiting clients, specifiers and contractors as the market for the system continues to grow. 20 contractors have to date been trained by Flowcrete to install the floor and enquiries are now coming in for the new Terrosso range which combines the fast installation times of Flowfast, with an attractive terrazzo appearance. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
 

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  1. Italian, perhaps from Old Provençal terrassa, terrace; see terrace.

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  1. Italian, terrace, balcony: see terrace.
 

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/tɛˈrɑtoʊ/
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