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overmount

The English word “overmount” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Mounted over something else.

verb

  1. To tower over; to go or rise higher than.

noun

  1. A piece of shaped cardboard used to prevent the glass of the frame from lying too closely upon an engraving or a picture.

Etymology

From over- + mount. Compare surmount.

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