Definitions for vignettevɪnˈyɛt
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
vi•gnettevɪnˈyɛt(n.)
a decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter.
Category: Fine Arts
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.
Category: Fine Arts, Printing
a decorative design representing branches, leaves, etc., as in a manuscript.
Category: Fine Arts, Printing
a short, graceful literary sketch. a brief, quietly touching or appealing scene or episode in a play, movie, or the like.
Category: Literature, Showbiz
Origin of vignette:
1745–55; < F: lit., little vine (see vine , -ette )
vi•gnet′tist(n.)
Princeton's WordNet
sketch, vignette(noun)
a brief literary description
vignette(noun)
a photograph whose edges shade off gradually
vignette(noun)
a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books)
Wiktionary
vignette(Noun)
A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
vignette(Noun)
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.
vignette(Noun)
Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
vignette(Noun)
A short story that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.
vignette(Noun)
The small picture on a postage stamp.
vignette(Verb)
To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away.
Origin: First attested in 1751. From vignette, diminutive of vigne, from vinea, from vinum. Replaced earlier vinet.
Webster Dictionary
Vignette(noun)
a running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture
Vignette(noun)
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
Vignette(verb)
to make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away
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