enframe
Americanverb (used with object)
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to provide with a frame or border.
The workmen enframed the window with mahogany.
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to enclose.
Three small bedrooms enframe the central area.
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to fix or shape.
Our surroundings give us a set of relationships that enframe our thoughts.
Etymology
Origin of enframe
First recorded in 1840–45; en- 1 ( def. ) frame ( def. ) (verb)
Example Sentences
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Many of these terms are defined in such a way that they enframe that which they discuss.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
Genius alone could have triumphed over the heterogeneous and fantastic surroundings in which he has chosen to enframe his great central group.
From The Later Works of Titian by Claude Phillips
The paving stones are usually finished quite neatly and smoothly where their edges enframe the firepit.
From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Henry Hobart Nichols
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