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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)
6.
Photography. to finish (a picture, photograph, etc.) in the manner of a vignette.
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Vignette
is always a great word to know.
So is sound head. Does it mean:
| a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals to be amplified and reproduced |
| prefilmed shots such as newsreels available from specialized film libraries for inserting into a film to establish locale or atmosphere |
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Word Origin & History
vignette
1751, "decorative design," originally a design in the form of vine tendrils around the borders of a book page, especially a picture page, from Fr. vignette, from O.Fr., dim. of vigne "vineyard" (see vine). Sense transferred from the border to the picture itself, then (1853)
EXPANDto a type of small photographic portrait with blurred edges very popular mid-19c. Meaning "literary sketch" is first recorded 1880, probably from the photographic sense.
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