tesselated
- a variation of tessellated.
Example Sentences
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They came & came until those who looked down from the balconies above saw only a tesselated pavement of male hats and female bonnets assembled before the paying windows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Have we no tesselated colors on our floors? no frescoed fancies on our roofs? no niched statuary in our corridors? no gilded furniture in our chambers? no costly stones in our cabinets?
From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by Ruskin, John
In many large pieces Roman tesselated pavements have been copied, which have produced a very rich effect.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
The pavement is tesselated, and at either end stand two columns completing its form, and dividing it from the other 74 galleries into which it opens.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker
In the Cloister garden of the Cathedral are preserved a tesselated pavement and the sepulchral slab of a Roman warrior.
From The Towns of Roman Britain by Bevan, James Oliver
