LATTICED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does latticed mean? 

• LATTICED (adjective)
  The adjective LATTICED has 1 sense:

1. having a pattern of fretwork or latticework

  Familiarity information: LATTICED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATTICED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a pattern of fretwork or latticework

Synonyms:

fretted; interlaced; latticed; latticelike

Similar:

reticular; reticulate (resembling or forming a network)

 Context examples 

The sitting-room of our client opened by a long, low, latticed window on to the ancient lichen-tinted court of the old college.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He then closed the door behind the bulky form which followed him and carefully adjusted the heavy curtain over the latticed window.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A faint light stole through the latticed window, and I could dimly see that she was in white, with her black hair loose upon her shoulders.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The new part, containing the schoolroom and dormitory, was lit by mullioned and latticed windows, which gave it a church-like aspect; a stone tablet over the door bore this inscription:—Lowood Institution.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The farmhouses were my delight, with thatched roofs, ivy up to the eaves, latticed windows, and stout women with rosy children at the doors.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This travelling-closet was an exact square, with a window in the middle of three of the squares, and each window was latticed with iron wire on the outside, to prevent accidents in long journeys.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And now I see the outside of our house, with the latticed bedroom-windows standing open to let in the sweet-smelling air, and the ragged old rooks'-nests still dangling in the elm-trees at the bottom of the front garden.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The house presented two pointed gables in its front; the windows were latticed and narrow: the front door was narrow too, one step led up to it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In seeking the door, I turned an angle: there shot out the friendly gleam again, from the lozenged panes of a very small latticed window, within a foot of the ground, made still smaller by the growth of ivy or some other creeping plant, whose leaves clustered thick over the portion of the house wall in which it was set.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The steps and banisters were of oak; the staircase window was high and latticed; both it and the long gallery into which the bedroom doors opened looked as if they belonged to a church rather than a house.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)