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Tessera

noun
(pl. tesserae)
1.
A small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics.





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"Tessera" Quotes from Famous Books



... provide yourself with a real tessera, which you may purchase for very little money. Plautus asked that folks should pay an as apiece. "Let those," he said, "who have not got it retire to their homes." The price of the seats was proclaimed aloud by a crier, who also ...
— The Wonders of Pompeii • Marc Monnier


Words linked to "Tessera" :   mosaic, tessella, tile, tessellate


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