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Definition of Passe-partout
1. Noun. Key that secures entrance everywhere.
2. Noun. A mounting for a picture using gummed tape.
Literary usage of Passe-partout
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1908)
"passe-partout FRAMING. [THE passe-partout has many more uses than the framing of
amateur pictures. Some of the best photographers on Fifth Avenue, New York, ..."
2. Tent Life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert Smith (1874)
"By a Clergyman of the Church of England. THE VICTORIA HOTEL—THE GIPSIES' FRIEND—THE
passe-partout— ..."
3. Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts Preserved in the Department by Campbell Dodgson (1903)
"This composition is enclosed by a single border [140 x 96] and placed irregularly
in a passe-partout, which does not tit it, so that a blank space is left ..."
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