Thanks for telling us about your doughty passe-partout!.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: W.G. SEBALD.] Reference

Then place on the whole a glass plate of the same size as the first and border like a passe-partout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference

Hence passe-partout frame, a frame ready made with such a mount for reception of photographs, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: W.G. SEBALD.] Reference

The passe-partout is STILL sticking the three together and I wonder just how many modern tapes have this lasting sticky strength?.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: W.G. SEBALD.] Reference

Slayback's dun-colored walls was a passe-partout snowscape, night closing in, and pink cottage windows peering out from under eaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

The second is passe-partout: "Inscribed on the slightly foxed passe-partout... were the words: Gracie Irlam, Urmston nr Manchester, 17 May 1944.".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: W.G. SEBALD.] Reference

His eyes once more roved about the room as if he were seeking something, and stepping deliberately to a passe-partout photograph of King George V., he ripped off the binding with his pocket-knife and tore from it the glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [L.P.M. : the end of the Great War] Reference

D'autant plus que l'emploi inconditionnel de la formule a contribué à faire de l'information un terme passe-partout, très éloigné même de sa théorisation mathématique (Shannon), de sa signification informatique initiale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference

There is an exquisite ivorytype of Marjorie, in passe-partout, on the drawing-room mantel-piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Daw, and other people] Reference

That passe-partout, called the fashion, has made them fly open-and what do you think was that fashion?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

This could be their passe-partout for stealing a tranche of American spending, or maybe some Freudian type social relevance grab.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cafferty File] Reference

BrE pápiay-máshay, AmE pâper-məshây papillon pápêeon papillote pápêeot parachute párashoot parfait parfây par excellence parexelónss parole parôle partér parvenu pàrvən (y) û pas de chat pàdə-shà pas de deux pàdə-dë pas de quatre pàdə-kátr passé pássè passe-partout pátwà, rhyming with fátwà penchant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

"She is very kind," said Sir Ulick: "I suppose, in general, you have found yourself pretty well received wherever you have gone -- not to flatter you too much on your mental or personal qualifications, and, no disparagement to Dr. Cambray's letters of introduction or my own, five or six thousand a - year are, I have generally observed, a tolerably good passport into society, a sufficient passe-partout.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 09] Reference

"passe-partout," given to authors visiting Russia during the coronation summer, entitling me to passage by train and boat throughout the czar's dominions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay] Reference

“regret,” and a year or two after, possibly in the spirit of conciliation and compensation, agreed to give foreign journalists in Berlin the passe-partout, or coupe-fil, as it is known in France, which is one of the privileges most valued by the journalist, native and foreign, in Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [William of Germany]

"That is a passe-partout, isn't it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

"Une passe-partout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]