Definitions for vignette

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vignette vi·gnette

Spelling: [vin-yet]

IPA: /vɪnˈyɛt/

Vignette is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in vignette (eeginttv).

Definitions for vignette

noun

1. a decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter.
2. 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.
3. a decorative design representing branches, leaves, grapes, or the like, as in a manuscript.
4. any small, pleasing picture or view.
5. a small, graceful literary sketch.

verb (used with object)

1. Photography. to finish (a picture, photograph, etc.) in the manner of a vignette.

Origin of vignette

1745-55; French: literally, little vine (see vine, -ette); so called from vinelike decorations in early books

Examples for vignette

Clarence gazed at the vignette of the track behind them formed by the hood of the rear.

The vignette was probably designed to illustrate some other work.

Rereading that review I linked to above, I opened it with a vignette that is still clear as a bell in my mind's eye.

The illustrated Title-page is embellished with a vignette, "Villeneuve," engr.

A view of it by Stanfield forms the vignette to the biography.

It ought to be an dition de luxe, or else a book with only a frontispiece and vignette.

Upon the other side was a vignette—a picture of Dolores, the weeping saint of Mexico!

The Title-page is embellished with a vignette of a shipwreck.

In the second act, a trio of ballet dancers from the New York City Ballet will appear in a vignette dedicated to cotton candy.

The costumes and settings are worthy of a full-length feature, and the creepy possessiveness of the song adds to the vignette.