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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 241 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LATH (0. Eng. laett, See also:Mid. Eng. lappe, a See also:form possibly due to the Welsh llath; the word appears in many See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Dutch See also:lat, Ger. Latte, and has passed into Romanic, cf. Ital. latta, Fr. latte)  , a thin See also:flat See also:strip of See also:wood or other material used in See also:building to See also:form a See also:base or groundwork for See also:plaster, or for tiles, slates or other covering for See also:roofs . Such strips of wood are employed to form lattice-See also:work, or for the bars of venetian blinds or shutters . A " lattice" (O . Fr. laths) is an interlaced structure of laths fastened together so as to form a See also:screen with See also:diamond-shaped or square interstices . Such a screen was used, as it still is in the See also:East, as a shutter for a window admitting See also:air rather than See also:light; it was hence used of the window closed by such a screen . In See also:modern usage the See also:term is applied to a window with diamond-shaped panes set in See also:lead-work . A window with a lattice painted red was formerly a See also:common See also:inn-sign (cf . See also:Shakespeare, 2 See also:Hen . IV. ii . 2 . 86); frequently the window was dispensed with, and the sign remained painted on a See also:board .

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