passe-partout
May. 6th, 2009 07:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordpasse-partout - n., something, such as a master key, that permits one to pass or go at will.
Also, a method of mounting a picture, but this is clearly not nearly as important as a universal pass. In use since the mid-17th century (dictionaries seem to disagree on the decade), from French, lit. (it) passes everywhere.
---L.
Also, a method of mounting a picture, but this is clearly not nearly as important as a universal pass. In use since the mid-17th century (dictionaries seem to disagree on the decade), from French, lit. (it) passes everywhere.
---L.
