Associations to the word «Tessera»

Wiktionary

TESSERA, noun. A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
TESSERA, noun. (planetology) complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton

Dictionary definition

TESSERA, noun. A small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope