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vignette
[ vin-yet ]
noun
- a decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter.
- an engraving, drawing, photograph, or the like that is shaded off gradually at the edges so as to leave no definite line at the border.
- a decorative design representing branches, leaves, grapes, or the like, as in a manuscript.
- any small, pleasing picture or view.
- a small, graceful literary sketch.
verb (used with object)
- Photography. to finish (a picture, photograph, etc.) in the manner of a vignette.
vignette
/ vɪˈnjɛt /
noun
- a small illustration placed at the beginning or end of a book or chapter
- a short graceful literary essay or sketch
- a photograph, drawing, etc, with edges that are shaded off
- architect a carved ornamentation that has a design based upon tendrils, leaves, etc
- any small endearing scene, view, picture, etc
verb
- to finish (a photograph, picture, etc) with a fading border in the form of a vignette
- to decorate with vignettes
- to portray in or as in a vignette
Derived Forms
- viˈgnettist, noun
Other Words From
- vi·gnettist noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of vignette1
Example Sentences
The healthcare vignette provides us a textbook example of how the GOP has retreated into policy fantasyland.
The costumes and settings are worthy of a full-length feature, and the creepy possessiveness of the song adds to the vignette.
Rereading that review I linked to above, I opened it with a vignette that is still clear as a bell in my mind's eye.
In the second act, a trio of ballet dancers from the New York City Ballet will appear in a vignette dedicated to cotton candy.
Yet another vignette has the Hope-wrapped Bündchen breaking the news that the mother-in-law is moving in.
The magazines sketch us a lively article, the newspapers vignette us, step by step, a royal tour.
In memory of the late lamented general the present five-peso bank notes bear his vignette.
See also the vignette on title page, copied from an alabaster slab in the Collegio Romano, originally from the Catacombs.
He inquired in what style I wished to be taken, whether full-length, half-length, or vignette. '
In some instances they partake much more of the character of a vignette than a tradesmans mark.
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