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half frame

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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Etta Belle Walker Northington

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

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

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 George Barr McCutcheon

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

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

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