# passe-partout
## English
### Etymology

From French passe-partout.

### Noun

passe-partout (plural passe-partouts)
* That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct.
    Synonym: safe-conduct
* A master key.
    Synonym: passkey
** 1998, Paul Cilliers, Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 112:The traditional (or modern) way of confronting complexity was to find a secure point of reference that could serve as foundation, a passe-partout, a master key from which everything else could be derived.
* A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, etc., usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes serving for several pictures.
    Synonyms: mat, matting
** 1933, William Crookes, T. A. Malone, George Shadbolt, J. Traill Taylor, William Blanchard Bolton, Thomas Bedding, The British Journal of Photography:A new introduction for use in conjunction with passe-partout framing is a series of corner pieces which are readily folded round the corners of the finished passe-partout, giving it a certain added effect and slight embellishment.

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* passepartout

### Etymology

From French passe-partout.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɑs.pɑrˈtu/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pas‧se-par‧tout

### Noun

passe-partout m (plural passe-partouts, diminutive passe-partoutje n)
* mat (thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame)

## French
### Alternative forms

* passepartout (post-1990 spelling)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pas.paʁ.tu/ ~ /pɑs.paʁ.tu/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

passe-partout m (plural passe-partouts)
* master key
    Synonyms: passe, rossignol
** 1849, Alexandre Dumas, “Le Chat, l’huissier et le squelette”, in Les Mille et Un Fantômes:Je visitai deux ou trois amis, puis je revins à la maison, où je rentrai, grâce à un passe-partout.I visited two or three friends, then I came back to the house, which I re-entered thanks to a skeleton key.
* (art, photography) matte (decorative border around a picture)
** 1915 August 25, Guillaume Apollinaire, Lettres à Madeleine:Ce dessin [de Marie Laurencin] est ravissant et extrêmement touchant, faites-lui mettre une petite baguette très étroite et un verre. Il est à nous et c’est un petit chef-d’œuvre. Il ne faut point de passe-partout et que l’encadreur n’en rogne rien, laissant visible tout le blanc.The drawing [by Marie Laurencin] is beautiful and extremely moving; have it fitted with a very narrow little frame and a piece of glass. It is ours and it is a small masterpiece. There must be no matte, and the framer must not trim anything, but leave all the empty space visible.
* type of brush
* (dated) Ellipsis of scie passe-partout.; two-man crosscut saw
    Synonym: passant

#### Descendants

* → Danish: passepartout
* → Dutch: passe-partout
* → English: passe-partout
* → German: Passepartout
* → Hungarian: paszpartu
* → Italian: passe-partout
* → Russian: паспарту (paspartu)
** → Georgian: პასპარტუ (ṗasṗarṭu)
* → Spanish: pasaportú

### Further reading

* “passe-partout”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* passepartout on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fr}$
* passe-partout (encadrement) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fr}$
* scie passe-partout on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fr}$

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French passe-partout.

### Noun

passe-partout
* passe-partout:
** safe-conduct
** master key
** mat, matting: a light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, etc., usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes serving for several pictures.
* (art, photography) matte (decorative border around a picture)

### Further reading

* “passe-partout” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* passepartout

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French passe-partout.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.sparˈtu/$^{**}$
* Rhymes: -u

### Noun

passe-partout m (invariable)
* skeleton key, master key
* (art) mat (thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame)

### References
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

passe-partout m (definite singular passe-partouten, indefinite plural passe-partouter, definite plural passe-partoutene)
* form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by passepartout