vi|gnette

vi|gnette
vi|gnette «vihn YEHT», noun, verb, -gnet|ted, -gnet|ting.
–n.
1. a decorative design on a page of a book, especially on or just before the title page, or at the beginning or end of a chapter.
2. a literary sketch; short verbal description: »

“Dinner at Eight” in its original state is an episodic work, really a series of vignettes of the guests at the party and their relationship to each other (New York Times).

3. a) an engraving, drawing, photograph, or the like, that shades off gradually at the edge. b) any picture or view of small, pleasing, and delicate proportion.
4. Obsolete. a decorative ornamentation of vine leaves, branches, and tendrils, as in architecture.
–v.t.
1. to make a vignette of.
2. to finish (a photograph or portrait) in the manner of a vignette.
╂[< French vignette < Old French (diminutive) < vigne vine < Latin vīnea < vīnum wine]

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