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tessera

tes·sera

uncommon rare

noun

1.

a small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics

Origin

Borrowed from Latin tessera (“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”), from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).

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