tessellated

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As I went into the hall I saw its floor was tessellated, and its wall was a picture-gallery.

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  1. Formed of small pieces of stone, glass, or the like, generally square or four-sided in plan, and long in proportion to their breadth. See tessera, 1.
  2. In botany, checkered; having the colors arranged in small squares, thus resembling a tessellated pavement.
  3. In zoology, checkered or reticulated in a regular manner, by either the coloration or the formation of the parts of a surface. Having colored patches resembling mosaic work or a checker-board. Divided by raised lines into square or angular spaces. Having distinct square scales.
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  • At Lavender Sweep, with the horse-chestnut blossoms strewing the drive and making it look like a tessellated pavement, all of us were always welcome, and Tom Taylor would often come to our house and ask mother to grill him a bone! —  The Story of My Life
  • The pavement is either tessellated or of chequered marble; some of the walls of the rooms are also tessellated with arabesque, borders, the ceilings are painted with gay colours, viz. —  An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
  • A third reduces the wayward balloon within the bounds of moderation, and Mr Coxwell exultingly exclaims that `he has it now under perfect command, with sand enough, and to spare Delighted to find the balloon is thus checked, as it is favourable to good readings of the several instruments at this elevation, I work as quickly as I can, noticing also the landscape below; rich mounds of green foliage, fields of various shades of green, like a tessellated pavement in motion; with roads, rivers, rivulets, and the undulatory nature of the ground varying the scene every instant. —  Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages
  • But Antiochus passed in and out of the study, gathering up writing materials, tablets, and books; and presently Drusus heard the freedman bidding an underling have ready and packed the marble slabs used for the tessellated floor of the Imperator's tent--a bit of luxury that Cćsar never denied himself while in the field. —  A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
  • As I went into the hall I saw its floor was tessellated, and its wall was a picture-gallery. —  New Tabernacle Sermons
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  1. from Latin tessellatus, made of small square stones, checkered (see tessellate), + -ed.
 

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