enframement

      English

      Etymology

      enframe +‎ -ment

      Noun

      enframement (plural enframements)

      1. That which enframes; a frame.
        • 2009 April 19, Christopher Gray, “In Audubon Park, a Few Surviving Oriels”, New York Times:
          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.
      Last modified on 13 August 2011, at 21:23