VIGNETTE
\vɪnjˈɛt], \vɪnjˈɛt], \v_ɪ_n_j_ˈɛ_t]\
Definitions of VIGNETTE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books)
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a photograph whose edges shade off gradually
By Princeton University
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a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books)
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a photograph whose edges shade off gradually
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A picture, illustration, or depiction in words, esp. one of a small or dainty kind.
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A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
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A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
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To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.
By Oddity Software
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A picture, illustration, or depiction in words, esp. one of a small or dainty kind.
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A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
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A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
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To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.
By Noah Webster.
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A small design decorating the blank space left at the beginning or end of a magazine article, a chapter in a book, etc.; any engraving, etc., which shades off gradually without definite border; a portrait of the head and shoulders only.
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Vignetter.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A running ornament of leaves and tendrils.
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An engraving, or the like, having a background that is shaded off gradually.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French] A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture;—a capital letter in ancient manuscripts;—formerly, any kind of printers' ornaments, as heads, flowers, and tail-pieces; more recently, any kind of wood-cut, engraving, not inclosed within a definite border;—in photography, a head or quarter-length likeness projected without accessories or surroundings on a plain card.
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