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Synonyms for vignette
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : vin-yet |
Phonetic Transcription : vɪnˈyɛt |
Définition of vignette
Origin :- 1751, "decorative design," originally a design in the form of vine tendrils around the borders of a book page, especially a picture page, from French vignette, from Old French diminutive of vigne "vineyard" (see vine). Sense transferred from the border to the picture itself, then (1853) to a type of small photographic portrait with blurred edges very popular mid-19c. Meaning "literary sketch" is first recorded 1880, probably from the photographic sense.
- noun story
- noun scenario
- The vignette was probably designed to illustrate some other work.
- Extract from : « The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Clarence gazed at the vignette of the track behind them formed by the hood of the rear.
- Extract from : « A Waif of the Plains » by Bret Harte
- The Title-page is embellished with a vignette of a shipwreck.
- Extract from : « The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. » by George Gordon Byron
- The illustrated Title-page is embellished with a vignette, "Villeneuve," engr.
- Extract from : « The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. » by George Gordon Byron
- Upon the other side was a vignette—a picture of Dolores, the weeping saint of Mexico!
- Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid
- It ought to be an dition de luxe, or else a book with only a frontispiece and vignette.
- Extract from : « Where Art Begins » by Hume Nisbet
- A view of it by Stanfield forms the vignette to the biography.
- Extract from : « Homes and haunts of the most eminent British poets, Vol. II (of 2) » by William Howitt
- For a tailpiece to this chapter one may vignette one of those little affairs.
- Extract from : « Kipps » by H. G. Wells
- A vignette in the first page of an edition of Apicius, printed at Basle, 1541, 4to.
- Extract from : « The Dance of Death » by Francis Douce
- Engraved frontispiece-title with vignette, by Freeman after Corbould.
- Extract from : « A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) » by Various
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