Meaning & use
Tesserae
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Small, often cube-shaped pieces of stone, glass, or tile used to create a mosaic.
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The Roman floor was pieced together from thousands of tiny colored tesserae.
Restorers carefully replaced missing tesserae to complete the ancient mosaic.
A note on using this word
"Tesserae" is the plural of "tessera," a Latin word for a small square tablet, which also gave rise to the modern term "tessellation."
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mosaic tiles
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