A window furnished with a lattice; also, in mod. use, one composed of small diamond-shaped panes set in lead-work.
15156. in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), II. 23. Pro factura fenestrarum scilicet latyswyndows.
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.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidanes Comm., 32 b. The Doctors of Divinite stande in the latesse windowes.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 207. Brasen dores, whereof the middle is made of solid brasse, the other foure in the forme of latteise windowes.
1743. Pococke, Descr. East, I. 26. They [galleys] are made with lattise windows all round.
1838. Dickens, O. Twist, xxxiv. A cottage-room, with a lattice-window.
1880. Disraeli, Endym., I. xi. 86. An old hall with gable ends and lattice windows.