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- noun The
tiled surfaces of something, or the arrangement of tiles on a surface.
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Examples
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New tilework and furniture, as well warm Mediterranean colors are a vast improvement to the sterile hole-in-the-wall the place used to look like inside.
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Max Kim-Bee Graphic Bath Architectural detail via tile: The black-and-white tilework reinterprets a common mosaic pattern, blown up in scale and made much more graphic.
Scene-Stealing Décor Jen Renzi 2011
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I took a ton of pictures in this kitschy delight, starting with the delightful terrazzo tilework in front.
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Alberti considered the intellectual lineaments of a building something mediated by the structure and ornament of its exterior; and while Pugin -- another gloomy Gus, if perhaps a necessary one -- frequently railed against what he saw as dishonesty in buildings, he never hesitated to plaster his own designs with exuberant tilework and gilt.
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I took a ton of pictures in this kitschy delight, starting with the delightful terrazzo tilework in front.
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Lu, who studied the question after a vacation in Uzbekistan left him marveling at the tilework.
Geometry Meets Arts in Islamic Tiles JDsg 2007
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It was slapped on a wall of tilework and Koranic inscriptions.
Boing Boing 2007
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The busy tilework would give me enough of a headache.
Gate into Fes, Morocco James Gurney 2008
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We particularly enjoyed the cliffside Paraiso Escondido, tastefully turned out in abundant tilework, nichos and pre-Columbian statuary.
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We particularly enjoyed the cliffside Paraiso Escondido, tastefully turned out in abundant tilework, nichos and pre-Columbian statuary.
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