Dictionary Entry
vignette
vignette is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
- 2noun
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.
- 3transitive verb
To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.
- 4noun
a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books)
- 5noun
a photograph whose edges shade off gradually
- 6noun
a brief literary description
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