a-frame
框格,框,框框,框体
Definitions
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- : any upright, rigid supporting frame in the form of a triangle or an inverted V, as V.
- : a building constructed principally of such a frame, with a steep gabled roof resting directly on a foundation.
Examples
ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
The media tend to frame situations like this as aberrations, but in this case, quite the opposite is the truth.
Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
By the time it concluded with a sing-a-long of “XO,” Beyoncé had done the rare thing.
In another year, stories about the strange new face of an A-list actress might draw chortles and cackles.
She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
There was a slight shuddering movement of his whole frame—Bob was dead.