Tesserae is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TESSERAE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• TESSERA, (Latin) a small piece of stone, glass or tile used in mosaic
• a small block of stone, tile, glass, or other material used in the construction of a mosaic
• (in ancient Greece and Rome) a small tablet of wood or bone used as a token.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a small square used in mosaic work

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How to use TESSERAE in a sentence

• Inside, the stone walls were everywhere covered with significant traceries in low relief, and were incrusted at intervals with disks and tesserae of turquoise-colored porcelain.
• When the cement sets, the cardboard sticking to the face is washed off, and the joints of tesserae flushed over with cement and cleaned off, leaving all joints filled up level.
• In all cases the tesserae are of small dimensions, about a quarter of an inch square.
• The tesserae stick up in parts, brilliant edges showing.
• No squared, artificially colored, or glazed tesserae, such as we see in a modern floor, are used, but little pieces, irregularly but purposely formed of brick and stone.
• In addition, the outside border is formed with tesserae of rather larger size of a sage green limestone.
• This border is constructed with tesserae about five-eighths of an inch square.
• In Chessils and in adjoining fields called Cornwell, just 525 feet above sea-level, he has, further, actually found Roman potsherds, tiles, and rough tesserae.
• But glass mosaics were already in use in the Augustan age, and the use of gilt tesserae goes back to the 1st or 2nd century.

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