Tessera refers to a small piece of material, like stone or glass, used to create mosaic artwork.
Tessera (TES-uhr-uh), plural tesserae (TES-uhr-ee), is a noun for a small piece of stone, glass, or tile used in mosaics.
| Front | tessera \TES-uhr-uh\ plural tesserae: TES-uhr-ee\ |
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| Back | noun A small piece of stone, glass, or tile used to make a mosaic. [From Latin, from Greek tesseres, variant of tessares (four), from the four corners of its square shape.] |
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