| 单词 | passepartout frame |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspassepartout frame 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. < as lemmas |
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