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Latten

noun

Brass (or a yellow alloy resembling brass) that was hammered into thin sheets; formerly used for church utensils.

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... magnificent piece of work apart from the historical interest that attaches to the soldier Prince, whose two great victories at Crecy and Poitiers have thrilled every English schoolboy during all the subsequent centuries. The strong iron railing has prevented any damage to the bronze or latten effigy, and except for the tarnishing and general deterioration of gilding and paint, one looks on the monument as it was erected in the days of chivalry. All the details of this tomb had been arranged by the Black Prince himself, and it was he who chose the Norman-French inscription all can ...

— Beautiful Britain • Gordon Home

... Whose whiteness overpassed the snow, whose speed the winged air. The busy horse-boys stand about, and lay upon their breasts The clapping of their hollow hands, and comb their maned crests. But he the mail-coat doth on him well-wrought with golden scale And latten white; he fits the sword unto his hand's avail: His shield therewith, and horned helm with ruddy crest o'erlaid: That sword, the very Might of Fire for father Daunus made, 90 And quenched the white-hot edge thereof amidst the Stygian ...

— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil

Words linked to "Latten" : brass