Crossword-Solution: TESSERAE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tesserae | pl. | of Tessera |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TESSERAE | anagram | ESTERASE |
We have 10 clues for the answer “TESSERAE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Art tiles | 1 answer |
| Mosaic cubes. | 1 answer |
| Mosaic squares | 1 answer |
| Musts for mosaics | 1 answer |
| Parts of a mosaic | 1 answer |
| Small elements of mosaics | 1 answer |
| Mosaic bits | 2 answers |
| Pieces in a mosaic. | 2 answers |
| Mosaic tiles | 3 answers |
| Mosaic pieces | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMCEZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TESSERAE (5)
The company is at the favorite games, draughts and dice, singly or together, and the rattle is merely of the tesserae, or ivory cubes, loudly shaken, and the moving of the hostes on the checkered boards.
Grasping the lantern from my hand he holds it close to the ground, when the rays reveal a complete mosaic--a pavement of minute tesserae of many colours, of intricate pattern, a work of much art, of much time, and of much industry.
After many breaks and halts, during which heavy rains spread their gauzes over the scene, the roofs and houses of Munich disclose themselves, suggesting the tesserae of an irregular mosaic.
The floors were made of _tesserae_, or small cubes of different materials and various colours, which were arranged in beautiful patterns.
The designer then leaving chiaroscuro, shading and other 'superficial facts of life' to take care of themselves, and keeping the idea of space limitation always before him, then proceeds to emphasise the beauty of his material, be it metal with its 'agreeable bossiness,' as Ruskin calls it, or leaded glass with its fine dark lines, or mosaic with its jewelled tesserae, or the loom with its crossed threads, or wood with its pleasant crispness.
Quotes with TESSERAE (2)
The earth is a mosaic, and most fail to notice the gossamer tesserae floating down from the realm of the mind that form its images of beauty and horror.
The bee has round it a mysterious inscription, which has been variously interpreted. It contains an allusion to beeswax, and one scholar has suggested that the tesserae were druggists’ tokens for the purpose of advertising the sale of beeswax. Another explanation is that the inscription might be one of the mysterious magic formulae used as charms, and that the tokens might be charms to call the bees home when swarming; but the most plausible solution seems to be that the tess…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, WP.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1945–2021).