Tesserae

Word TESSERAE
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Definitions and meanings of "Tesserae"

What do we mean by tesserae?

A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.

Complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton

A wild and crazy person who is very ingenious and a straight faced comic but who also has trouble finding motivation out of day to day life. Urban Dictionary

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The word "tesserae" in example sentences

The 64-year-old mosaicist fashions the tiny glass pieces known as tesserae into remarkable artworks. ❋ TOM HAWTHORN (2010)

(also called tesserae), and gluing them into place. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, archaeological indicators for actual villas (such as tesserae, crustae, hypocaust tiles or window glass) were not retrieved. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A mosaic consists of bits that, taken alone, don't mean much: put those individual tesserae , or tiles, together, and you can have a work of art. ❋ Irwin Stelzer (2011)

But he did not hesitate, and when they reached her room — whose walls were a mosaic of sea creatures composed of mint green, white, and brown tesserae — he entered along with her and closed the door behind him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I just noticed your blog has a subtitle "Tessera are the small pieces that make up a mosaic" which first rang a bell and immediately afterwards set off my grammar nazi alarm bell, as I remembered that 'tessera' is a singular and the plural would be 'tesserae'. ❋ TK (2010)

Figure 3: Sham architecture fragments used as tesserae in the mosaic floor of Frigidarium I ❋ Unknown (2009)

As for the other colours of the floor locally quarried chert was used for the purple, yellow and coral red tesserae. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most remarkable was the use of fragments of an inscription as tesserae. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Aside from chert, sandstone and limestone, once again limited amounts of grey and white marble as well as red and brown slipped pottery were applied as tesserae. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also here local limestone was mainly used for the white and light coloured tesserae, while local sandstone was the type used for the dark coloured tesserae. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With the exception of a few (grey) marble tesserae, only sandstone and limestone have been the material of choice for this mosaic floor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Striking was the discovery that a limited amount of fragments of wall veneer and sham architecture had been reused in the mosaic floor as tesserae. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lyrical and elegant a prose stylist as he was, he never compromised the rigorous precision of his observations; he saw clearly, and described vividly what he saw, from the movement of raindrops down a window ( "the window screen, like a sampler half-stitched, or a crossword puzzle invisibly solved, was inlaid erratically with minute, translucent tesserae of rain") to the effects of the '70s energy crisis on the lives of average Americans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Whereas most of the floor was made up of dark grey to dark green sandstone and local white, beige and pink limestone, a small proportion of the tesserae consisted of other more precious materials. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Drabkin also experimented with tesserae, creating a series of mosaic panels on biblical themes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Furthermore, tesserae as well as mosaic floor fragments originating from the floor revetment of the large urban mansion of Sagalassos were examined. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The tesserae used for the mosaics of this palace are very small, which shows that the workmanship of the mosaics was very good. ❋ Jan (2008)

We cooked octopus on the beach, snorkeled among the reefs, and collected ancient Roman tesserae from the eroding shoreline. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[That girl] is such a Tessera! She's always off [in her] own [world]! ❋ OpheliaNeko (2010)

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