Crossword-Solution: VIGNETTE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vignette | n. | A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture. |
| Vignette | n. | 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. |
| Vignette | v. t. | To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “VIGNETTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Brief evocative account | 1 answer |
| small illustration placed at the beginning or end of a chapter or book | 1 answer |
| Small illustration at the beginning or end of the book | 1 answer |
| Short literary sketch | 1 answer |
| Portrait photograph with blurred border | 1 answer |
| Brief scene | 1 answer |
| Brief literary description | 1 answer |
| Brief incident | 1 answer |
| Brief evocative description | 1 answer |
| Short sketch | 2 answers |
| Short scene | 2 answers |
| Literary sketch | 2 answers |
| BOOK design | 4 answers |
| A PHOTOGRAPH WHOSE EDGES SHADE OFF GRADUALLY | 11 answers |
| Brief sketch | 11 answers |
| ARCHITECTURAL decoration | 29 answers |
| Sketch | 38 answers |
| Short story? | 41 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZECEMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with VIGNETTE (5)
For example, if a posting in alt.sex is a response to a part of someone else's posting that has nothing particularly to do with sex, the author may append `ObSex' (or `Obsex') and toss off a question or vignette about some unusual erotic act.
And yet the stuff of which these yearnings are made, is of the flimsiest: if but the thermometer fall a little below its ordinary Mediterranean level, or a wind come down from the snow-clad Alps behind, the spirit of his fancies changes upon the instant, and many a doleful vignette of the grim wintry streets at home returns to him, and begins to haunt his memory.
After calling at one or two flat places, with low dams stretching out into the lake, whereon were stumpy lighthouses, like windmills without sails, the whole looking like a Dutch vignette, we came at midnight to Cleveland, where we lay all night, and until nine o’clock next morning.
His right hand, the index finger protruded, points upward, and, by chance or design, points straight at Jasper in the vignette above.
And he so young! and with such immense possibilities of disorderly amusement before him! He felt quite pathetic over the notion of his own fate, as if it had been some one else’s, and made a little imaginative vignette of the scene in the morning when they should find his body.
Quotes with VIGNETTE (3)
Quote: a vignette of life’s treasures wrapped by letters that sing a song
This is beautiful." Eugenie ran her fingers along a massive mahogany sideboard, on the top of which rested a red velvet sash with fine embroidery on it and, on top of the sash, a silver dagger. That little vignette was Jean Lafitte in a nutshell. Refined gentleman and renegade. Velvet and violence.
When I first heard Nina Simone, her naked truth shocked me. Whenever she sang, it felt like lightning bolts in my soul. Every song was like a movie, a unique and very different vignette.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1975–2021).