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Tessellation   Listen
noun
Tessellation  n.  The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tessellation" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Indian sea; when first upon the traveller's sight opened the long ranges of columned palaces,—each with its black boat moored at the portal,—each with its image cast down, beneath its feet, upon that green pavement which every breeze broke into new fantasies of rich tessellation; when first, at the extremity of the bright vista, the shadowy Rialto threw its colossal curve slowly forth from behind the palace of the Camerlenghi; that strange curve, so delicate, so adamantine, strong as a mountain cavern, graceful as a bow just bent; when first, ...
— Stones of Venice [introductions] • John Ruskin



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