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   vignette

   /viːˈnjɛt/

   noun

   • 1. a brief evocative description, account, or episode: "a classic vignette of embassy life"
   • 2. a small illustration or portrait photograph which fades into its background without a definite border.
   • 3. a small ornamental design filling a space in a book or carving, typically based on foliage.

   verb

   • 1. portray (someone) in the style of a vignette.
   • ▪ produce (a photograph) in the style of a vignette by softening or shading away the edges of the subject: "instructions had been sent to the shop to make a cropped, oval, vignetted copy of a family group portrait"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in vignette (sense 3 of the noun); also as an architectural term denoting a carved representation of a vine): from French, diminutive of vigne ‘vine’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. vignettist noun

   Scrabble Points: 12

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