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4] Most of these were made of pewter or lead, but some have been found of silver gilt, latten, and tin.

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  1. noun Brass or an alloy resembling brass, hammered thin and formerly used in the manufacture of church vessels.
  2. noun A thin sheet of metal, especially of tin.

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  • 4] Most of these were made of pewter or lead, but some have been found of silver gilt, latten, and tin. —  English Villages
  • Then she brought him the hand-washing water in a basin of latten, and a goodly towel therewith, and when he had washed she went away from him, but not far This while the other women were busy about the hall; some swept the floor down, and when it was swept strawed thereon rushes and handfuls of wild thyme: some went into the buttery and bore forth the boards and the trestles: some went to the chests and brought out the rich hangings, the goodly bankers and dorsars, and did them on the walls: some bore in the stoups and horns and beakers, and some went their ways and came not back a while, for they were busied about the cooking. —  The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men
  • Then she brought him the hand-washing water in a basin of latten, and a goodly towel therewith, and when he had washed she went away from him, but not far. —  The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men
  • The earliest metal statuary in England was rendered in latten, a mixed metal of a yellow colour, the exact recipe for which has not survived. —  Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
  • Here is the list of church goods which the commissioners found there, and which had escaped previous ravages One challice, a cross of copper & gilt, another cross of timber covered with brass, one cope of blue velvet embroidered with images of angles, one vestment of the same suit with an albe of Lockeram,[22] two vestments of Dornexe,[23] and three other very old, two old & coarse albes of Lockeram, two old copes of Dornexe iiij altar cloths of linen cloth, two corporals with two cases whereof one is embroidered, two surplices, & one rochet, one bible amp; the paraphrases of Erasmus in English, seven banners of lockeram amp; one streamer all painted, three front cloths for altars whereof one of them is with panes of white damask & black satin, & the other two of old vestments, two towels of linen, iiij candlesticks of latten[24] & two standertes[25] before the high altar of latten, a lent vail[26] before the high altar with panes blue and white, two candlesticks of latten and five branches, a peace,[27 three great bells with one saunce bell xx, one canopy of cloth, a covering of Dornixe for the Sepulchre, two cruets of pewter, a holy-water pot of latten, a linen cloth to draw before the rood And all the said parcels safely to be kept & preserved, & all the same & every parcel thereof to be forthcoming at all times when it shall be of them [the churchwardens] required 22] A fine linen cloth made in Brittany (cf. Coriolanus_, Act ii. —  Vanishing England
 

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  1. Middle English laton, from Old French, from Arabic lātūn, probably from Old Turkic altun, gold; akin to Mongolian altan.

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  1. Early modern English also latton, laton, laten; from Middle English laton, latoun, latun (= Russian latunŭ), from Old French laton, F. laiton, latten, = Spanish laton = Portuguese latão, brass, metal in thin plates, from Spanish lata, lath, = Portuguese lata, tin-plate, from German latte, a lath, a thin plate; see lath.
 

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