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Tessera
noun
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Noun
- 1 A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
"The map was laid using tesserae, small cube-shaped tiles of limestone, marble, or colored stone."
- 2 a small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics wordnet
- 3 complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton
- 4 An ancient Roman die. rare
"During the reign of Augustus, Rome imported marble from Egypt and Africa, and games of tali and tessera were played."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tessera (“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”), from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).
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