tesseral
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| —n , pl -serae | |
| 1. | a small square tile of stone, glass, etc, used in mosaics |
| 2. | a die, tally, etc, used in classical times, made of bone or wood |
| [C17: from Latin, from Ionic Greek tesseres four] | |
| 'tesseral | |
| —adj | |
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