fishscale tile
- noun
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azulejo de escamas de pez
- The bathroom walls were covered in glossy fishscale tiles that sparkled in the light.
Examples
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They chose green fishscale tiles to add a vintage touch to the kitchen backsplash.
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Artisans carefully aligned each fishscale tile to maintain the flowing pattern across the entryway.
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The fishscale tile looks stunning.
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Wow, those fishscale tiles are amazing!
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The bathroom walls were covered in glossy fishscale tiles that sparkled in the light.
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Artisans carefully aligned each fishscale tile to maintain the flowing pattern across the entryway.
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They chose green fishscale tiles to add a vintage touch to the kitchen backsplash.
How Scaly
Surface Forms
Morphology
fishscale + tile
The meaning 'a tile patterned like overlapping fish scales' is transparently compositional from the parts: fish + scale (i.e., the scales of a fish) functioning as a modifier of tile. Noun–noun compounding that names a tile by its appearance is a common, cross-linguistically motivated pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Fishscale tile The noun fishscale tile comes from a curved, overlapping design that looks like a fish's shiny scales. That's why the name now means a tile with a 'scale-like' decorative pattern.