enframement

noun

enframement

noun

Etymology From enframe + -ment.

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.2009 April 19, Christopher Gray, “In Audubon Park, a Few Surviving Oriels”, in New York Times:

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