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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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There is an exquisite ivory-type of Marjorie, in passe-partout, on the drawing room mantel-piece.
Journalists have an invisible passe-partout that allows them to roam the world and ask consequential people impertinent questions.
I conducted my own furtive tour of the French intelligence community and found that de Villiers's name was a very effective passe-partout, even among people who found the subject mildly embarrassing.
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.
So if it wasn't a passe-partout, it was non-suited, quoad existence.
Cut the passe-partout paper an inch longer than the side to be covered, and do not fasten down quite to the corner.

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