Making valueless nude? Monet is in Giverny framing it (12)
I believe the answer is:
demonetising
'giverny framing it' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'making valueless nude? monet is in' is the wordplay.
'making' becomes 'ding' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'nude?' indicates the central letters (the word is stripped of its outer letters).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
The centre of 'valueless' is 'e'.
'e'+'monet'+'is'='emonetis'
'ding' going around 'emonetis' is 'DEMONETISING'.
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