half frame

British

noun

1. a photograph taking up half the normal area of a frame on a particular film, taken esp on 35-millimetre film
2. ( as modifier )
  
  a half-frame camera

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Last photo hung on your wall: Moroccan half frame by Al Boglio.

From Time Magazine Archive

This half log, half frame house on a corner had stood a siege once.

From Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)

This smaller house, an insignificant, weather-beaten story and a half frame, snuggling among the underbrush, was where his father had lived when he first came to Lafayette.

From Viola Gwyn by McCutcheon, George Barr

His home was an unpretentious story and a half frame building, situated in a large grove of trees, and surrounded by smaller homes for servants and tenants.

From Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia by Northington, Etta Belle Walker

The farmhouse was half frame, half white brick, with a slate roof.

From The Flying Stingaree by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)

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