Word Finder - vignette

definition

A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.

definition

A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position.

definition

(by extension) Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.

definition

(by extension) A short story or anecdote that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.

synonyms

• account
• anecdote
• depiction
• portrayal
• representation

definition

The central pictorial image on a postage stamp.

definition

The characteristic of a camera lens, either by deficiency in design or by mismatch of the lens with the film format, to produce an image smaller than the film's frame with a crudely focused border. Photographers may deliberately choose this characteristic for a special effect.

definition

A small sticker affixed to a vehicle windscreen to indicate that tolls have been paid.

definition

To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away.

In addition to Ayesha's personal tragedy, there is a poignant vignette detailing a young boy's infatuation with a mummified woman.

Unusually oriented with west at the top, it includes a vignette of Powhatan.

A wellknown vignette in the Book of the Dead depicts the scene.

Filters must be situated in and not vignette the collimated beam [3.10, Sa] .

John Britton, engraved portrait & title vignette, MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER OF HENRY HATCHER.

The frontispiece includes a copy of the vignette sepia photograph of CHP in service uniform dated circa 1915.

Eight full-page wood-cuts (frontispiece and title-page vignette missing) by Samuel Williams?

Added engraved title-page, title vignette, decorated initials, tail pieces.

It is a colored combination of the title page vignette and the illustration of the figure on page 12 of the first edition.

Hale has completed his arrangements for taking the carte-de-visite and the new vignette portraits.

Two specific types of vignette type cards are to be found.

With a vignette illustration; the issue for 7 May is printed on yellow paper, the issue for 14 May on red paper.

This is a large, cool retro pendent, in antiqued brass metal, with a plastic central vignette depicting a pair of lovers.