cross-barred

Arches in those walls held massive wooden doors cross-barred with iron, and the whole scene was lit by torches that burned eerily blue without smoking.

The Night Of the Solstice L.J. SMITH 2010

He came down and seated himself at the breakfast-table, with a surly scowl on his salmon-coloured bloodshot face, strangling in a tight, cross-barred cravat; his linen and his appointments so perfectly stiff and spotless that everybody at once recognized him as a dear countryman.

The Book of Snobs 2006

He noted the hard cell door, which was barred and cross-barred with great round rods of steel, and fastened with a thick, highly polished lock.

The Financier 2004

Slowly and more slowly they worked, wearily, apathetically, fetching, carrying, in their divided skirts of cross-barred stuff of a rich Velasquez dirt color.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

I followed with mine the direction of her eyes, and saw my odious cousin, Dudley, in a flagrant pair of cross-barred peg-tops, and what Milly before her reformation used to call other

Uncle Silas 2003

They were massively cross-barred, and placed at such a height that curiosity, even on tiptoe, expired before it reached them.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

Moon-tight turned planks hoar, cross-barred with long unrestful shadows.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

Moon-tight turned planks hoar, cross-barred with long unrestful shadows.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

The chauffeur swung off the highway to a dirt road, then onto grounds protected by cross-barred white fencing.

Murder to Go Lathen, Emma, pseud 1969

I'm sorry to say, as a southerner, that the little black spot on the map of the United States which indicated in all of our propaganda the non-suffrage states, that the South was always pretty black, and some of the other states were speckled and cross-barred, showing that they had municipal suffrage or school suffrage, or white if they had full suffrage.

Oral History Interview with Adele Clark, February 28, 1964. Interview G-0014-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1964