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Vignette   /vɪnjˈɛt/  /vinjˈɛt/   Listen
Vignette

noun
1.
A brief literary description.  Synonym: sketch.
2.
A photograph whose edges shade off gradually.
3.
A small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books).






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"Vignette" Quotes from Famous Books



... a photograph of Mrs. Stowe taken in 1884. The vignette of Mrs. Stowe's later Hartford home is from a drawing by ...
— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... this picture in prose there is the poetic vignette which Prior and Montague inserted in their "Country Mouse and the City Mouse," written in burlesque of Dryden's ...
— Inns and Taverns of Old London • Henry C. Shelley

... Tussaud's. To be the latter, however, is by no means easy. It is one of the most poignant forms of self-sacrifice attained by the race. In that, at least, you have some wintry consolation; and the imaginative vignette of yourself wearing the martyr's crown is a pretty piece of ...
— Prose Fancies • Richard Le Gallienne

... picture of equal merit, obtained by the same means, February 28, 1883, with an exposure of one hour, is reproduced in the frontispiece. The vignette includes two specimens of planetary photography. The Jupiter, with the great red spot conspicuous in the southern hemisphere, is by Dr. Common. It dates from September 3, 1879, and was accordingly one of the earliest results with his 36-inch, ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

... Mrs. Kraemer died convulsively in the Meeker hall. Beyond that I am congenitally incapable of belief. I asked McGeorge directly if it was his contention that, through Stepan's blunder, the unfortunate imperialistic lady, favored with a vignette of modern organized barbarity, had seen Mrs. Doothnack's son ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... our last volume with three Vignette Views in the Surrey Zoological Gardens. The season was then cold and ungenial, the trees leafless; in short, it was about mid-winter, but the magic pencil of our artist invested his scenes with all the pride ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. XX. No. 556., Saturday, July 7, 1832 • Various



Words linked to "Vignette" :   photo, study, photograph, description, picture, exposure, pic



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