v. Also 9 inframe. [f. EN-1 + FRAME sb.] trans. a. To set (a picture, etc.) in or as in a frame. b. Of surrounding objects: To serve as a frame to. Also fig.
Hence Enframed ppl. a.
1848. Fraser’s Mag., XXXVIII. 514/1. The boats and rafts; the floating bodies;… all enframed by the gaping ruin of the fallen dwellings.
1877. Tennyson, Harold, I. i. But all the powers of the house of Godwin Are not enframed in thee.
1878. Tinsley’s Mag., XXIII. 40/1. The rich heavy masses of golden-brown hair inframing the exquisite face.
1886. G. Baldw. Brown, Schola to Cathedral, iv. 171. Byzantine manuscripts, mosaics, and gold-enframed enamels.
