latticed
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5.6
- adjective
- /ˈlætɪst/
:
enrejado
- High up on either side of the stage comes from a latticed box the sound of the samsien and other stringed instruments that make soft, plaintive, and pleasing music.
Examples
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He opened the latticed metal door, gave a light push to the inner double glass doors, and watched them swing back and forth, slower and slower.
Fiction book (1990) -
He opened a latticed metal door, giving a light push to the inner double glass doors.
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The sun slanted through latticed wood and dried grapevines.
Fiction book (1994) -
In the morning, all the philosophers, still scarfed and mittened, met in a latticed gazebo.
Fiction book (1997) -
Through the veil over the latticed window, Father Broussard told me to pray often to the Virgin Mary, to avoid those people and places and things that were occasions of sin, and to go to confession and receive Communion at least once a week.
Fiction book (1998) -
The rung of the chair had come loose, the latticed chairback let out its last creak, and I found myself sitting on the floor with the same expression of bewilderment with which I had greeted her last revelation.
Fiction book (1991) -
Peirce's neo-Comtean classifications of the sciences—Kent excavates a latticed structure reminiscent of Escher.
Academic text (1994) -
She ordered tea, and through a latticed window watched the people come and go in the street.
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The sun slanted through latticed wood and dried grapevines, creating beautiful patterns on the ground.
Synonyms
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6.3
Lines or parts cross over and under each other to make a pattern
A pattern of crossing bars or lines that makes many small spaces
A surface decorated with a repeated pattern of crossing lines
A frame of crossed bars that helps climbing plants grow
A structure made of a network of holes like a net, as in some bones or shells
Covered with a network of bars or wires that give support
How Lattice-Like
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word latticed comes from the older word lattice, which meant a frame of thin wooden strips called laths used to make a crossed pattern, like a garden fence. So, latticed means 'made with a crisscross pattern', often letting light or air pass through.