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vignette

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vignette
1. a short graceful literary essay or sketch
2. a photograph, drawing, etc., with edges that are shaded off
3. Architect a carved ornamentation that has a design based upon tendrils, leaves, etc.
vignette [vin′yet]
(graphic arts)
To lighten the edges of a photograph or a halftone illustration so it gradually disappears into the surrounding white of the paper, leaving no sharp edge.
vinette, trayle, vignette
vinette
An ornament of running vine scrolls with grape clusters and leafwork.
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He saw them together on the Lido and (those writing fellows are horrible) he wrote what he calls a vignette (I suppose accidentally, too) under that very title.
The Arrow of Gold by Conrad, Joseph View in context
After calling at one or two flat places, with low dams stretching out into the lake, whereon were stumpy lighthouses, like windmills without sails, the whole looking like a Dutch vignette, we came at midnight to Cleveland, where we lay all night, and until nine o'clock next morning.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
Finding himself without prospects on leaving college, he attempted painting, but in spite of his intimacy with Joseph Bridau, his life-long friend, he abandoned art to take up caricature, vignette designing, and drawing for books, which twenty years later went by the name of "illustration.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
 
 
 
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