Enframement

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    That which enframes; a frame.

    "The last house in the row, No. 648, is much more elaborate than the others, with a composite-order door enframement and something like a Palladian window on the second floor, richly modeled and topped with a broken pediment."

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"The last house in the row, No. 648, is much more elaborate than the others, with a composite-order door enframement and something like a Palladian window on the second floor, richly modeled and topped with a broken pediment."

Etymology

From enframe + -ment.

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