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What is a passe-partout?

What is a passe-partout? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct.
  2. (obsolete) A master key; a latchkey.
  3. (obsolete) A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, etc., usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes serving for several pictures.
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Journalists have an invisible passe-partout that allows them to roam the world and ask consequential people impertinent questions.
When the sections are finished, fasten them together with the passe-partout paper.
Book-cloth or any firm material can be used instead of the passe-partout paper.
Odds and ends of furniture — a folding card table, a standard lamp, a barometer, picture frames showing peeling strips of passe-partout — were piled in the hall, half sorted, inventoried, forlorn and sour with damp.
The manner was then to repeat the engraved borders of titles, the passe-partout, in the centre of which the text was printed.
This can be done still easier by using strips of passe-partout binding, or strips used for binding lantern slides.

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