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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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