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Word: tilework (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Last week she found one, in a 15-story apartment building facing Washington Square: seven rooms, three baths, a fireplace, built-in bookcases. In the rear of the building is a little Spanish courtyard with scenes from the career of Don Quixote traced in its tilework. The address: 29 Washington Square West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Home from Home | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...That the elaborate tilework found on old Mexican buildings had its origin in the Moorish civilization of the Middle Ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: South of the Border | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

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