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vi⋅gnette

  [vin-yet] noun, verb, -gnet⋅ted, -gnet⋅ting.
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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.
Origin:
1745–55; < F: lit., little vine (see vine, -ette ); so called from vinelike decorations in early books

Related forms:
vi⋅gnet⋅tist, noun
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vi·gnette   (vĭn-yět')   
n.  

  1. A decorative design placed at the beginning or end of a book or chapter of a book or along the border of a page.

  2. An unbordered picture, often a portrait, that shades off into the surrounding color at the edges.

    1. A short, usually descriptive literary sketch.

    2. A short scene or incident, as from a movie.

tr.v.   vi·gnet·ted, vi·gnet·ting, vi·gnettes

  1. To soften the edges of (a picture) in vignette style.

  2. To describe in a brief way.


[French, from Old French, diminutive of vigne, vine (from the use of vine tendrils in decorative borders); see vine.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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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) to 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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