Crossword clues for terrazzo
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of flooring material, 1893, from Italian terrazzo "terrace, balcony" (see terrace).
Wiktionary
n. (context architecture English) A faux-marble material used for flooring and countertops.
Wikipedia
Terrazzo is a composite material, poured in place or precast, which is used for floor and wall treatments. It consists of chips of marble, quartz, granite, glass, or other suitable material, poured with a cementitious binder (for chemical binding), polymeric (for physical binding), or a combination of both. Metal strips divide sections, or changes in color or material in a pattern. Additional chips may be sprinkled atop the mix before it sets. After it is cured it is ground and polished smooth or otherwise finished to produce a uniformly textured surface.
Usage examples of "terrazzo".
She scans the terrazzo floor, the pale blue walls, then the small living room.
Lex crouches on the cool terrazzo floor and opens the crime-scene case.
They stood on a terrazzo entryway two steps above a large living room which on its other side morphed into a long, lean kitchen and dining area.
Footsteps sounded on the terrazzo and Fletch flipped the switch for the living room intercom.
He put her down, letting her feet slip to the terrazzo while he kept his other arm about her shoulders.
He heard their footsteps on the terrazzo floor and turned toward them, straightening to his full height as they approached.
Tongues of heat danced along her spine and down her legs, making her feel as if she were melting right there onto the terrazzo floor.
The screening was not eighteen inches from my face, and the terrazzo floor level perhaps eight inches above ground level.
My legs were straight out, heels resting on terrazzo, pants cuffs hiked up by the same kind of tape which had also been used to fast en my ankles together.
I fell onto my side, the aluminum clattering onto the terrazzo, and saw her stagger back, turn half around to catch her balance, trip as one foot came out of a zori, take two little running steps, head down, and then dive.
I step into a huge open space divided in two by a series of tall steel columns and the floors are suddenly terrazzo and the windows are just cubes of opaque glass.
Mouille chandeliers are suspended over sparkling green-and-white terrazzo floors and rugs designed by Christine Van Der Hurd.
Skeet worriedly noticed the way I eyed a dropped Mentos lying on the terrazzo floor.
Like a number of homes down here, its Spanish influence was reflected by pink adobe with a terrazzo roof.
People rushing for the door knocked Sabinus off balance, pitching Quintus onto the terrazzo floor of the vestibule, where his head struck the hard marble.