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tessera
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n. 1 A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic. 2 (context planetology English) complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton
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A tessera is an individual tile in a mosaic. Tessera , plural tesserae , may also refer to: the number 4 in Greek (τέσσερα) dice used in ancient Rome the booklet of prayers of the Legion of Mary , a Catholic lay organization layers of calcification on sharks ...
Usage examples of tessera.
Bonnard was a corpulent man, a skilled ceramicist whose touch with tile nippers and mosaic tesserae was unrivaled, but he was not much of an overseer.
The floor at the base of the ladder was firm but scattered with bits of something that scrunched beneath his feet--fallen plaster, perhaps, or tesserae loosened from an ancient mosaic.
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.
Nicholai could only recall shattered tesserae of experience, the binding grout of chronological sequence dissolved by the drugs they pumped into him.
From his present angle these few feet lower, he saw that the polished gray tesserae formed a subtle pattern of radial lines with circular lines crossing them.
Five hundred years ago mosaicists were laying reversed sheets of tesserae on walls and floors in Rhodias, Mylasia, Baiana.
Crispin was just then attempting the task of making muddy brown tesserae appear like the brilliant glowing of Heladikos's sacred fire, high up on a scaffold under the dome.
Up on the high scaffold, Caius Crispus of Varena was setting reddish-veined marble from Pezzelana flat into the soft, sticky lime coat on the dome, interspersed with the best of the tesserae they'd managed to salvage from the miserable sheets of glass.
With tesserae worthy of the name, and perhaps a sanctuary dome designed with windows enough and-by the god's grace-good, clear glass for those windows, he might.
Now, as he dressed quickly in the twilight chill, he found himself engaged in slotting pieces of information like tesserae within his mind to make a picture.
He dreamt of Sarantium, of making a mosaic there, with brilliant tesserae and all the shining jewels he needed: images on a towering dome of an oak tree in a grove, lightning bolts in a livid sky.
A figure as absolute and terrifying as the bison had been: another dark, massive head, against the pale, golden tesserae of the sun behind him.
He knew, intuitively, that this precise pairing of tesserae would exist nowhere else on the dome.
I'd need to be up on a scaffold to be certain, but it seems some tesserae have dislodged there as well.
When we have set tesserae on some sanctuary or palace domes in Batiara it has been our good fortune-Martinian's and mine-to achieve pleasing effects by being aware of when and where the moons will lend their light through the seasons.