英和和英

語源

From lattice +‎ -work.

名詞

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.