ˈcross-barred, ppl. a.
[f. prec. n. or vb. + -ed.]
Furnished with cross-bars, having bars placed across; marked with cross-bars or stripes.
| 1611 Cotgr., Croisée, the crosse-barre of a window; also, a window so crosse-barred. 1624 Heywood Gunaik. v. 225 A horse-litter seeled and crosse-bard with gads of steele and plates of yron. 1667 Milton P.L. iv. 190 Substantial dores, Cross-barrd and bolted fast. 1677 Lond. Gaz. No. 1245/4 The other [Gown] purple and white single Crossbarr'd Lutestring. 1712 Addison Spect. No. 311 ¶1 Her Chamber Windows are cross-barred. 1891 Daily News 7 Sept. 3/3 [The gown] was grey, crossbarred down the back and front with broad bands of black velvet. |