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Lattice   /lˈætəs/   Listen
Lattice

noun
1.
An arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions.
2.
Small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted.  Synonyms: grille, wicket.
3.
Framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal.  Synonyms: fretwork, latticework.



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"Lattice" Quotes from Famous Books



... Samuel ben Ali in Bagdad, equally well-read in the Bible and the Talmud, and famous for her beauty. She lectured on the Talmud to a large number of students, and, to prevent their falling in love with her, she sat behind lattice-work or in a glass cabinet, that she might be heard but not seen. The dry tourist-chronicler fails to report whether her disciples approved of the preventive measure, and whether in the end it turned out to have been effectual. At all events, the example of the learned ...
— Jewish Literature and Other Essays • Gustav Karpeles
... this," he said, looking out of the lattice on to the Green, where the grass was vivid with sunset and the ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry
... of this landscape, framed in a window: "They sat together in a window whose lattice lay back against the wall, and displayed, beyond the garden trees and the wild green park, the valley of Gimmerton, with a long line of mist winding nearly to its top (for very soon after you pass the chapel, as you may have noticed, ...
— The Three Brontes • May Sinclair
... just sent a telegram to Brookbend Cottage," he said to the young lady behind the brasswork lattice. "We think it may have come inaccurately and should like a repeat." He took out his purse. "What ...
— Four Max Carrados Detective Stories • Ernest Bramah
... Maister Bawsy-brown, Through yonder lattice creepin'; You come for cream and to gar me dream, But you dinna find me sleepin'. The moonbeam, that upon the floor Wi' crickets ben a-jinkin', Now steals away fra' her bonnie play— Wi' a ...
— A Little Book of Western Verse • Eugene Field


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