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

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

From Project Gutenberg

She folded, and sorted, and pinned up in bundles, and had nearly finished tidying the great heap, when the children came hurrying back, bearing in their arms a nice Oxford frame, through the glass of which shone out what was to be John's life-text, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"

From Project Gutenberg

Over her own bed, within the lattice of an Oxford frame, was the photograph of a picture of an extremely composed young woman in a trailing robe, clinging to the Rock of Ages in the midst of histrionically aggressive waves, and she had a feeling, rather than a thought, that perhaps for all the oddity of the presentation it did convey something acutely desirable, that she herself had had moods when she would have found something very comforting in just such an impassioned grip.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Joint of Oxford Frame with front edges champered.

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