acoustical tile

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noun

tile made in various sizes and textures from soft, usually fibrous, sound-absorbing material, as wood, cork, or metal, and typically applied to ceilings or walls.

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Tile work in the bathrooms, furniture, and artwork on the walls all flowed together and carried his creative touch.
When Gary Wright Met George Harrison: Dream Weaver, John and Yoko, and More|Gary Wright|September 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Revered and dutiful, he fought (and was injured) in World War II, and succeeded to the tile in 1953.
For Sale: The $3M British Mountain—With Aristocratic Family Feud Included|Tom Sykes|August 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As I reach the berm of sand, tile and stucco that marked a kind of front line, bodies are being piled on carts in the street.
Who Is Behind Gaza's Mass Execution?|Jesse Rosenfeld|August 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The second he does, her giggle sends the Queen of Spades cascading to the brown tile floor below.
Hallucinating Away a Heroin Addiction|Abby Haglage|May 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST

She was standing out of the way, over against the gray tile wall.
Jimmy Breslin on JFK’s Assassination: Two Classic Columns|Jimmy Breslin|November 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It is in the Elizabethan style, with half-timber frame and sagging tile roof.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car|Thomas D. Murphy
A variety of paving tile called "oven tiles" is of similar material to the ordinary red brick, and in size is 10 or 12 in.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
Gutters also of tile ran along the eaves to conduct the water into cisterns, if it was needed for domestic purposes.
The Private Life of the Romans|Harold Whetstone Johnston
The building possesses about the best acoustical properties of any place of worship in Preston.
Our Churches and Chapels|Atticus
The roofs are of tile, for the winters on the hills are too severe to permit the flat, terraced roofs of Algiers or Bona.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873|Various

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