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masking frame

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masking frame

–noun Photography.
easel (def. 2).

Origin:
1935–40

ea⋅sel

[ee-zuhl]
–noun
1. a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle an artist's canvas, a blackboard, a china plate, etc.
2. Also called masking frame. Photography. a frame, often with adjustable masks, used to hold photographic paper flat and control borders when printing enlargements.

Origin:
1625–35; < D ezel ass, easel (c. G Esel, OE esel ass) < VL *asilus, for L asellus, dim. of asinus ass 1


easeled, adjective
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