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INTERLACED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does interlaced mean?
• INTERLACED (adjective)
The adjective INTERLACED has 1 sense:
1. having a pattern of fretwork or latticework
Familiarity information: INTERLACED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a pattern of fretwork or latticework
Synonyms:
fretted; interlaced; latticed; latticelike
Similar:
reticular; reticulate (resembling or forming a network)
Context examples
He was bald on the top of his head; and had some thin wet-looking hair that was just turning grey, brushed across each temple, so that the two sides interlaced on his forehead.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For defence each man wore a coat of interlaced leathern thongs, strengthened at the shoulder, elbow, and upper arm with slips of steel.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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