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Definition of Tessella
1. Noun. A small tessera.
Definition of Tessella
1. Noun. A small tessera. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tessella
1. a little tessera [n TESSELLAE]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tessella
Literary usage of Tessella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary (1871)
"The tessella: composing the breast and neck of the bird are of a bright azure
glass, v¡ith a slight admixture of green of the same material ; the wing is of ..."
2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1868)
"Beneath, the legs and body parts are pale dull cinereous; tarsi and tibiae,
annulated and barred with black outwardly, as in H. tessella. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities with Nearly 2000 Engravings on by Anthony Rich (1874)
"tessella'TUS. tessellated; applied to pavements (Suet. CCBS. 46.); see PAVIMENTUM,
3. 2. Applied to whips (Apul. Met. viii. p. 173. ..."
4. Roman Pavements by Henry Colley March (1906)
"We incidentally get some idea of the size connoted by this diminutive, the
tessella, since Pliny in his Book on Cultivated trees speaks of grafting and says ..."
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