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lattice
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Jane Eyre
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- 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.†
p. 58.9
- 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.†
p. 116.3 *
- No sooner had twilight, that hour of romance, began to lower her blue and starry banner over the lattice, than I rose, opened the piano, and entreated him, for the love of heaven, to give me a song.†
p. 312.5lattice = regular crisscross grid that repeats in a pattern of squares or diamonds
- 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.†
p. 381.5
- I, too, in the grey, small, antique structure, with its low roof, its latticed casements, its mouldering walls, its avenue of aged firs — all grown aslant under the stress of mountain winds; its garden, dark with yew and holly — and where no flowers but of the hardiest species would bloom — found a charm both potent and permanent.†
p. 402.4
- The two girls, on whom, kneeling down on the wet ground, and looking through the low, latticed window of Moor House kitchen, I had gazed with so bitter a mixture of interest and despair, were my near kinswomen; and the young and stately gentleman who had found me almost dying at his threshold was my blood relation.†
p. 444.6
- — to peep up at chamber lattices, fearing life was astir behind them!†
p. 489.7
- 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.†
p. 497.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(lattice) regular crisscross pattern of lines or points that forms a repeating grid of squares or diamondsregular crisscross grid that repeats in a pattern of squares or diamonds
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)