Definitions for vernissage

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vernissage ver·nis·sage

Spelling: [ver-nuh-sahzh; French ver-nee- Vernissage is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 704 anagrams from letters in vernissage (aeeginrssv).

Definitions for vernissage

noun

1. Also called varnishing day. the day before the opening of an art exhibition traditionally reserved for the artist to varnish the paintings.
2. a reception at a gallery for an artist whose show is about to open to the public.

Origin of vernissage

1910-15; French: literally, a varnishing, touching up (of paintings). See varnish, -age

Examples for vernissage

Ledoyen's has attained a particular celebrity as the restaurant where every one lunches on the vernissage day of the Salon.

We had not heard of his arrival until we ran across him at the vernissage in the New Salon.

The spring came at last, and with it vernissage at the Salon.

You can't imagine how impatient I was to get back in time for vernissage.

By ten o'clock the night of the "vernissage" all his acquaintances and intimates in Paris had brought him their felicitations.