Behind latticework screens the nautch girls waited in boredom, braiding their hair, smoothing their skintight trousers, inspecting themselves in the ring-mirror on their right thumb, and chewing betel.
Behind the latticework screens that fronted these balconies--some carved rosewood, some filigreed marble--Hawksworth could see clusters of idle women chewing betel and fanning themselves as they leaned forward to inspect the procession below.
Nadir Sharif rose and strolled to a latticework window.
The walls on either side of the throne were latticework marble screens, through which the zenana women could watch.
His thoughts began to drift randomly, to float in and among the marble latticework of the veranda.
As they neared the river the air started to grow sultry, and they began passing the clay-walled huts of shopkeepers and clerks, roofed in palm leaves with latticework grills for windows.
From a low latticework window down the east side of the Red Fort, past the Jasmine Tower and many levels down the Khas Mahal, it was just possible to see the center of the plaza.
The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal.
The frames should be rabbeted on the inside for the latticework and the glass.
The end rails should be rabbeted on the inside for the latticework and the glass.
Defn: The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal.
A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent.
Lattice bridge, a bridge supported by lattice girders, or latticework trusses.
The outer walls of the house, which serve no structural purpose, are sliding latticework panels called shoji, which are covered with translucent white rice paper, bathing the exterior rooms in a soft daytime light.
The ceiling itself is a light wood latticework over which has been laid a platform of thin boards still in their natural state, as is all the woodwork.
Rice-paper-covered latticework used as windows in the traditional Japanese house.
Four windows pierced the circular walls of the nether room, and two gave light to the room above; these six openings being guarded on the outer sides with latticework of steel.
It's awful to contemplate," said Meigs, casting a melancholy glance through the iron latticework at one of the windows.
We could not get in, of course, because you had the key, but we hung to the latticework at the windows.
