Both Uses of
mosaic
in
And The Mountains Echoed
- It had parapets, a veranda with sparkly mosaics, and wide balconies with curved wrought-iron railings.†
Chpt 7 *
- Or, rather, someone's tragically misguided idea of a mansion, three stories high, pink, green, yellow, white, with parapets and turrets and pointed eaves and mosaics and mirrored skyscraper glass.†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(mosaic) art consisting of a design made of many pieces of colored material such as stone or tile
or more rarely:
anything made of many differing parts of equal importance, but varying appearance -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, "Mosaic" can mean "related to Moses". A comprehensive dictionary will show numerous other more specialized meanings based upon the primary meaning.