All 4 Uses of
lattice
in
David Copperfield
- 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.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- At length we stopped before a very old house bulging out over the road; a house with long low lattice-windows bulging out still farther, and beams with carved heads on the ends bulging out too, so that I fancied the whole house was leaning forward, trying to see who was passing on the narrow pavement below.†
Chpt 13-15
- Notwithstanding which, she got out in the night; forced the lattice of a window, that I had nailed up myself; dropped on a vine that was trailed below; and never has been seen or heard of, to my knowledge, since.'†
Chpt 46-48
- The early sun was striking edgewise on its gables and lattice-windows, touching them with gold; and some beams of its old peace seemed to touch my heart.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(lattice) an object or pattern made from crisscrossing two sets of lines -- leaving diamond- or square-shaped spaces where they do not overlap
or:
an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern