A window furnished with a lattice; also, in mod. use, one composed of small diamond-shaped panes set in lead-work.

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1515–6.  in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), II. 23. Pro factura fenestrarum … scilicet latyswyndows.

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a. 1533.  Ld. Berners, Huon, clviii. 609. Out of ye chaumbre wheras she shal be in she shal se them all … thrughe a lateyse wyndowe.

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1560.  Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 32 b. The Doctors of Divinite stande in the latesse windowes.

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1611.  Coryat, Crudities, 207. Brasen dores, whereof the middle … is made of solid brasse, the other foure in the forme of latteise windowes.

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1743.  Pococke, Descr. East, I. 26. They [galleys] are made with lattise windows all round.

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1838.  Dickens, O. Twist, xxxiv. A cottage-room, with a lattice-window.

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1880.  Disraeli, Endym., I. xi. 86. An old hall with gable ends and lattice windows.

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