tessellated• Normally, the whole of a floor is tessellated.• She would hear tileswirl of water from the downstairs washroom, his footsteps on the tessellated floor of the hall.• Inside was a red and white tessellated floor.• The main house of the villa had two heated rooms with a tessellatedpavement, part of which survived.• I promised to have a look at the dig and point out where the tessellated pavement should be.