Oxford frame

American  

noun

1. a frame for a picture, mirror, etc., consisting of four straight pieces whose ends project beyond the corners.

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Oxford frame British  

noun

1. a type of picture frame in which the sides of the frame cross each other and project outwards

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Etymology

Origin of Oxford frame

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

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Oxford frame

A note framed in an Oxford frame that was a little too large for it, he presently demeaned himself to read.

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Over the mantelshelf hung a print in an Oxford frame, with the title Suffer Little Children to Come unto Me, and a large stain of damp in the lower left-hand corner.

From True Tilda by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

It hung above the bed she shared with May, beside a memorial card of the donor set in a shining black Oxford frame.

From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie

The clerk in blue silk handed up another picture in a rickety Oxford frame, at which the auctioneer gazed rapturously for several moments before turning it towards her audience.

From A College Girl by William H. C. Groome