Meanings
- not comparableCovered with tiles (pieces that are similarly shaped)
The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: […]
1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 31 more example
The bat and the owl made it their home, the spider wove its dreary tapestry, the grass made its way through the tessellated floors, the moss grew over the untrodden pavement, and the ivy—the fragile and creeping ivy—was now the chief support of the battlements which it had overrun.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 7
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of tessellate
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving a checkered or mottled appearance
adjectivedecorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Italian tessellato
- tessellatoTranslations
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