vignette
noun
a decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter.
vignetted
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past participleof vignette.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof vignette.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
vignettenouna decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter.
Example Sentences
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His grand themes are all there: a two-zone transfer is a bus ticket, sure — but also passage between realms of Black and white; haves and have-nots; harshly lit reality and vignetted dreams.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
As such, “Booth” has the feel of an oft-repeated family legend — vignetted at the edges, full of portents, omens and mysterious reversals of fate.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
The second filter vignetted around the subject to make them fit in the brandy snifter.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2022
Its political admirals, mercilessly vignetted by Larrabee, were boneheads or worse.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were both gravely nodding and shaking their heads with sparkling eyes and brightened color, looking not at each other but at the far landscape vignetted through a lozenge-shaped wind opening in the trees.
From A First Family of Tasajara by Bret Harte
