Associations to the word «Latten»
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Wiktionary
LATTEN, noun. (archaic or historical) An alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools.
LATTEN, noun. Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets.
Dictionary definition
LATTEN, noun. Brass (or a yellow alloy resembling brass) that was hammered into thin sheets; formerly used for church utensils.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.