frameable

English

Alternative forms

• framable

Etymology

From frame +‎ -able.

Adjective

frameable (not comparable)

1. Suitable for framing.
   • 1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo:

     [Julian:] Why did you pick me?
     [Leon:] Because you were frameable, Julie.

   • 2008 January 13, Virginia Heffernan, “Ancestral Allure”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Sites like TheFamilyHistoryStore.com, GeneaLinks.com and RootsWeb.com, with their menus of recondite offerings (frameable certificates, migration maps, the patented Color Track System), make up a deluxe spa for the ego.

2. Able to be framed or presented in a certain way.

   a fairy tale frameable as a feminist liberation narrative

Derived terms

• unframeable