WordNet
n. an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizonal lines (often in relief); "there was a simple fret at the top of the walls" [syn: fret, Greek fret, Greek key]
Usage examples of "key pattern".
Twice in as many miles he saw the Greek Key pattern again: once on the canopy above a restaurant, and again in gold on the window of an antique shop.
And surely had there been such a key pattern, Holmes would have discovered it.
The sun reflected from it and-played a bright key pattern on his forehead.
The service manager just dials an eight-hundred number, reads off the car's VIN, number, and the guy at the other end - from Ford or GM or Chrysler - gives him the key pattern.
Standing beside the arurim was a little Tharian who wore the yellow stole of a clerk or scribe, hemmed with the white key pattern of Heskalifos.