terrazzo
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- noun
- /tɛˈræzoʊ/
- Specialized
:
terrazo
- The floors are the original terrazzo marble from the 1920s.
- terrazzo floor
- terrazzo tile
- original terrazzo
Examples
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Just beyond the lobby, the terrazzo floor of an immense central atrium is devoted to Colorado.
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"On that terrazzo floor, you could hear every bounce of the pool ball," Fischer said.
Blog text (20) -
We'll find an apartment with a terrazzo.
Fiction book (2002) -
Please don't break the terrazzo floor when you land.
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Here they clicked on the terrazzo floor.
Fiction book (2000) -
Downtown Manhattan, a pastry shop with an ornate terrazzo floor.
Fiction book (2002) -
It was an old hospital with high ceilings, terrazzo floors, and great sash windows that could be thrown open in the spring and fall.
Fiction book (1996) -
Marble stairways, terrazzo floors, and the bronze main entrance doors designed by Huntington's sculptor wife, Anna Hyatt Huntington, all made for an impressive setting.
Academic text (2004) -
The salon's green sinks are still behind the bar, accented by original glass brick and terrazzo floors.
Synonyms
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Material like wood, tile or carpet that covers a floor
How Decorative
Surface Forms
Etymology
Terrazzo comes from the Italian terrazza, meaning 'terrace', and from terra meaning 'earth', which is the same root as English terrace. Picture a terrace covered with small stones — terrazzo is a shiny floor made by mixing little pieces of marble, glass, or stone into cement and polishing them smooth, so the name fits the idea of a stone-covered surface.