ppl. a. [f. prec. sb. or vb. + -ED.] Furnished with cross-bars, having bars placed across; marked with cross-bars or stripes.
1611. Cotgr., Croisée, the crosse-barre of a window; also, a window so crosse-barred.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., V. 225. A horse-litter seeled and crosse-bard with gads of steele and plates of yron.
1667. Milton, P. L., IV. 190. Substantial dores, Cross-barrd and bolted fast.
1677. Lond. Gaz., No. 1245/4. The other [Gown] purple and white single Crossbarr’d Lutestring.
1712. Addison, Spect., No. 311, ¶ 1. Her Chamber Windows are cross-barred.
1891. Daily News, 7 Sept., 3/3. An effective gown, worn by a tall woman was grey, crossbarred down the back and front with broad bands of black velvet.
