Where we stand upon its tessellated floor, each square yard is sacred to the memory of some departed Knight; the marbles bearing their names are also emblazoned with their arms.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
The intervals between each of these rows are filled up with a kind of tessellated pavement, the middle whereof represents a maze or labyrinth, about ten feet in diameter, and so artfully contrived that were we to suppose a man following all the intricate meanders of its volutes, he could not travel less than a mile before he got from one end to the other.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner
This room opens into a salle de bain of an elliptical form; the bath, of white marble, is sunk in the pavement, which is tessellated.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner