tessellated

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Adjective

tessellated (not comparable)

  1. Covered with tiles (pieces that are similarly shaped)
    • 1834, L E L, chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. , volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 7:
      The bat and the owl made it their home, the spider wove its dreary tapestry, the grass made its way through the tessellated floors, the moss grew over the untrodden pavement, and the ivy—the fragile and creeping ivy—was now the chief support of the battlements which it had overrun.
    • 1922, E R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 3:
      The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: []

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Verb

tessellated

  1. simple past and past participle of tessellate