单词 | passepartout |
释义 | passepartoutn. 1. Originally: †a person who may go anywhere (obsolete). Subsequently: a thing giving a person the right or opportunity to go anywhere; spec. a key that opens any or many doors, a master key; (occasionally) a passport. Frequently in extended use and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > key > master-key master key1577 pass-key1633 passepartout1675 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xix. 52 A travelling warrant is call'd Passeport, wheras the Original is passe par tout.] 1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife i. 6 Now may I..be in short the Pas par tout of the Town. 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper v. i. 55 With this Passe par tout, I will instantly conduct her to my own Chamber. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iii. i. 38 Why this Wench is the Pass-par-tout, a very Master-Key to every Bodies strong Box. 1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe I. iii. 313 One of my Servants, who is gone with two of Monsieur Le Envoy's, and his passe par toute to Nova. 1749 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Bute 30 Nov. He opened his door with the passe-partout key. 1760 S. Foote Minor i. 23 My art, sir, is a pass-par-tout. I seldom want employment. 1826 M. Kelly Reminisc. I. iv. 71 I must say, that at the time I speak of, to be a native of Great Britain, was a passe partout all over Italy! 1833 C. MacFarlane Lives Banditti (1837) 365 Shortly after the prior went with a passe-partout, and opened the door of his cell. 1918 E. J. Dillon Eclipse of Russia x. 178 He showed them his passe-partout and they set him at liberty at once. 1987 Sunday Times 4 Oct. 64/2 The tale wields the dreamy passe-partout of extreme wealth. 2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 23 May (News & Features section) 24 The chambermaids had passe-partouts, but when your key was in the keyhole you were assured privacy. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > plate > plate or block with centre cut out passepartout1842 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 899/2 Passepartout, in Engraving, a plate or wood block, whose centre part is entirely cut out round the outer part, whereof a border or ornamental design is engraved, serving as a frame to what may be placed in the centre. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Passe-partout... This is common in wood-engraving, where an ornamental border may be made to do duty with changing central advertisements or labels. b. A border or mount for a picture made from a piece of card or similar material with the central part cut out to receive the picture. Also (in full passepartout frame): a ready-made frame consisting of two sheets of transparent material (or one sheet with a card backing) held together at the edges. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > picture-frame picture frame1668 passepartout1857 Oxford frame1870 riza1927 1857 E. T. Freedley Philadelphia & its Manuf. 478 Picture & Looking-glass Frames... [Manufacturer] E. Masse, (Black Oval and Passe Partout,) 201 N. Eighth. 1867 A. D. Whitney Leslie Goldthwaite vi. 120 There were engravings and photographs in passe-partout frames. 1873 T. B. Aldrich Marjorie Daw vii There is an exquisite ivorytype of Marjorie in passe~partout, on the..mantle-piece. 1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 60 A plain passe-partout greatly assists in ‘setting off’ a picture which otherwise would be but a plain print. 1910 V. Tree Let. 13 Nov. in Castles in Air (1926) 54 I have found a manufacturer of passe-partouts for my flower and French costume prints. 1921 E. Ferber Girls iv. 67 In Lottie's bedroom there still hangs a picture of the two of them, framed in passepartout. 1984 New Yorker 14 May 81/3 Photographs in passe-partout frames. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Mar. 54/3 Shura is busy being a girl..reflected in the looking-glass of passe-partout and blackened mercury. c. A kind of adhesive paper or tape used for framing pictures. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > adhesive > [noun] > adhesive tape adhesive tape1887 sticky tape1890 duck tape1899 passepartout1910 durex tape1932 Scotch tape1934 durex1938 Sellotape1949 duct tape1965 1910–11 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 144/1 Passepartout binding, black, green, brown, grey, red and white. 1954 Paper Terminol. (Spalding & Hodge) 44 Passe-partout, a strong embossed paper, gummed on one side and sold in coils about 1 in. wide. It is made in many colours and is used for picture mounting and the binding of lantern slides. 1978 J. Goodman Last Sentence iii. 112 Haphazardly hung photographs, all framed amateurishly with passe-partout. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). passepartoutv. Now rare. transitive. To place (a picture) in a passepartout frame. ΚΠ 1900 N.Y. Times 1 Dec. 16/4 (advt.) New and Attractive Artistically Framed Pictures..neatly passe-partouted and fitted with dainty mats under glass. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. 952/1 Passepartout,..to place in a passe-partout frame. 1929 Carroll (Iowa) Times 13 Feb. ii. 1/3 The girls each passe-partouted a picture. Derivatives ˌpasseparˈtouted adj. framed in a passepartout frame. ΚΠ 1901 Good Housek. Dec. 515/2 It was always a source of curiosity to me to know how to hang passepartouted pictures. 1911 Printers' Ink 1 June 31 The picture department was a small affair..dealing chiefly in framed chromos and passepartouted prints. 1969 R. Blythe Akenfield viii. 136 Passe-partout-ed photographs of their sons and daughters..hang on long strings from the picture rail. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1675v.1900 |
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