latticework

latticework

See also: lattice-work

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English lattice
English -work
English latticework

    From lattice + -work.

    Noun

    latticework (countable and uncountable, plural latticeworks)

    1. A lattice or lattice-like structure; interlacing laths or strips.
      • 1948, Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Part One, 1:
        A vine-like latticework of stars frosted the southern sky, and with his eyes he interlinked these spangled vines till he could trace many ice-white resemblances ...
      • 1952 February, “New Type of Signal Bridge Near Sunderland”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
        On the former North Eastern Railway the signalling methods followed for many years resulted in a great number of structures being provided, all of substantial design, with tall latticework posts and sometimes duplicate arms below.
      • 2023 October 18, Nick Brodrick, “The grand gateway to Glasgow”, in RAIL, number 994, page 32:
        Decorative arches intersect the graceful latticework of the expansive ridge and furrow trainshed rooves, woven together by a staggering tessellation of 48,000 glass panels.

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