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Black latten
Latten Lat"ten, n. [OE. latoun, laton, OF. laton, F. laiton, prob. fr. OF. late lath, F. latte; -- because made in thin plates; cf. It. latta a sheet of tinned iron, tin plate. F. latte is of German origin. See Lath a thin board.] 1. A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass. He had a cross of latoun full of stones. --Chaucer. 2. Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets; as, gold latten. Black latten, brass in milled sheets, composed of copper and zinc, used by braziers, and for drawing into wire. Roll latten, latten polished on both sides ready for use. Shaven latten, a thinner kind than black latten. White latten, a mixture of brass and tin.

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- rare. "Latten" also refers to a type of tin plating on iron (or possibly some other base metal), which is known as white latten; and black latten refers...
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- are created by laying a sheet of paper on top of a br**** (then called "latten" - a zinc-copper alloy produced via the obsolete calamine br**** process)...
- arrives that Lattens has fallen ill again, prompting a distraught UrLeyn to rush back to the castle. While DeWar is gone, Perrund tells Lattens a story about...
- Þórbjǫrg ('protected by Thor'). She wore a blue cloak and a headpiece of black lamb trimmed with white ermine, carried the symbolic distaff (seiðstafr)...
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- were often made of cuir bouilli, as is the famous example belonging to the Black Prince and hung with other "achievements" over his tomb in Canterbury Cathedral...
- Valtenberg 586.6 1,925 Saxony Laußnitz Heath Hinterer Buchberg 245 804 Saxony Latten Mountains Karkopf 1,738 5,702 Bavaria Leine Uplands Bloße Zelle 480.4 1...
- contract sti****ted that the effigies were to be made of gilded copper and latten and to lie under canopies. They were to be crowned, their right hands were...
- monumental slabs were imported from Belgium in the same way as plates of 'latten' (laiton) had been in the era of br****es. This would account for their prevalence...