vignette
vignette is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
- 2.To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- anastatic
- aquatint
- aquatinta
- autotype
- bite
- block
- bur
- burin
- cerograph
- cerography
- chalcography
- chalk
- chromolithograph
- chromolithography
- color
- copperplate
- cut
- die
- dry
- engrave
- engraved
- engraving
- etch
- etching
- glyphograph
- glyphography
- glyptography
- graphotype
- grave
- graver
- half
- heliotype
- holograph
- illumination
- illustration
- impression
- initial
- insculptured
- lapidarian
- lapidary
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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