Passepartout
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The word Passepartout has several meanings:
- Passepartout, a skeleton key or master key that opens any lock
- Passepartout, the French term for a mat, a paper or, more usually, cardboard sheet with a cutout, which is placed under the glass in a frame. A photo (or print, drawing, etc.) is placed beneath it, with the cutout framing it. The passepartout serves two purposes: first, to prevent the image from touching the glass, and second, to frame the image and enhance its visual appeal. The word may also be used for the tape used to stick the back of the picture to its frame
- Passepartout (character), a character in Jules Verne's novel, Around the World in Eighty Days and in the Sci Fi Channel television series The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
- Passepartout (publishing), an open source desktop publishing program for the X Window System. It is part of the GNOME project
- Passe-Partout, a French-language children's television program produced from 1977 to 1987 by Radio-Québec (now Télé-Québec)
- Passe Partout, the name of a local morning news program on KLFY-TV in Lafayette, Louisiana
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