camen.
/keɪm/, U.S. /keɪm/ A small grooved bar of lead used for framing the glass in lattice windows: chiefly in plural.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > glazing or dividing bar
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1688 R. Holme iii. ix. 384/2 Leads [Glasier's]..termed Caums.
1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Cames, the small slender rods of cast lead of which they make their milled lead for joining the panes or quarrels of glass.
1734 Builder's Dict. at Cames Their Lead being cast into slender Rods, of twelve or fourteen Inches in Length, are called Cames; and sometimes they call each of those Rods a Came.
1867 W. Papworth Gwilt's Encycl. Archit. (rev. ed.) ii. iii. 671 The glazier's vice is for preparing the leaden slips called cames with grooves, etc.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 677 Cames..were formerly called ‘lattices’, and hence leaded windows were termed lattice windows.
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