a picture or pattern made by placing together small pieces of glass, stone, etc. of different colours 鑲嵌圖案;馬賽克 a Roman mosaic 羅馬鑲嵌畫 a design in mosaic 馬賽克圖案 mosaic tiles 馬賽克瓷磚 - (figurative)
A mosaic of fields, rivers and woods lay below us. 我們下方是由田野、河流和林木交織成的圖畫。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMosaic is used before these nouns:- tile
Word Originlate Middle English: from French mosaïque, based on Latin musi(v)um decoration with small square stones, perhaps ultimately from Greek mousa ‘a muse’.