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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tessellated
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I promised to have a look at the dig and point out where the tessellated pavement should be.
▪ Inside was a red and white tessellated floor.
▪ Normally, the whole of a floor is tessellated.
▪ She would hear tile swirl of water from the downstairs washroom, his footsteps on the tessellated floor of the hall.
▪ The main house of the villa had two heated rooms with a tessellated pavement, part of which survived.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tessellated

Tessellated \Tes"sel*la`ted\, a.

  1. Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement.

  2. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf.

Tessellated

Tessellate \Tes"sel*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tessellated; p. pr. & vb. n. Tessellating.] [L. tessellatus tessellated. See Tessellar.] To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.

The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the fashion of France.
--Macaulay.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tessellated

1690s, from Late Latin tessellatus "made of small square stones or tiles," past participle of tesselare, from tessella "small square stone or tile," diminutive of tessera "a cube or square of stone or wood," perhaps from Greek tessera, neuter of tesseres, Ionic variant of tessares "four" (see four), in reference to four corners. Related: Tessellate (v.), a 1791 back-formation (from 1826 as an adjective, 1909 as a noun); tessellating.

Wiktionary
tessellated

  1. Covered with pieces that are similarly shaped. v

  2. (en-past of: tessellate)

WordNet
tessellated

  1. adj. having a checkered or mottled appearance

  2. decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together; "a mosaic floor"; "a tessellated pavement" [syn: mosaic]

Usage examples of "tessellated".

It was more noticeable in Shiriya-Shenin: their slit robes, curved pairs of blades and manes braided with ceramic beads, their habit of going barefoot on tessellated stone floors.

Curia Hostilia had been uninspiring within: the tiers had been blocks of unrendered tufa, the walls drably painted with a few red curliques and lines on a beige background, the curule dais more tufa stone, and the central space between the two banks of tiers tessellated in black and white marble so old it had long lost polish or majesty.

The old Curia Hostilia had been uninspiring within: the tiers had been blocks of unrendered tufa, the walls drably painted with a few red curliques and lines on a beige background, the curule dais more tufa stone, and the central space between the two banks of tiers tessellated in black and white marble so old it had long lost polish or majesty.

Curia Hostilia had been uninspiring within: the tiers had been blocks of unrendered tufa, the walls drably painted with a few red curliques and lines on a beige background, the curule dais more tufa stone, and the central space between the two banks of tiers tessellated in black and white marble so old it had long lost polish or majesty.

Now a newly tessellated marble floor waited for an Axminster carpet, currently being woven especially.

Or now perhaps not a tar pit but a sea of bones or a grid, a wall of tessellated carbon or scabmatter the size of a city.