VIGNETTE

I. noun see: vine Date: 1611 a running ornament (as of vine leaves, tendrils, and grapes) put on or just before a title page or at the beginning or end of a chapter, 2. a picture (as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper, the pictorial part of a postage stamp design as distinguished from the frame and lettering, 3. a short descriptive literary sketch, a brief incident or scene (as in a play or movie), vignettist noun II. transitive verb (~d; vignetting) Date: 1853 to finish (as a photograph) like a ~, to describe briefly, ~r noun