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"MOSAIC:

A picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc...

Something resembling such a picture or decoration in composition, especially in being made up of diverse elements..."

--"Random House Dictionary of the English Language" (2nd. ed.) unabridged, 1987.

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