Usually means: Short, evocative scene or description.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word vignette:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. vignette: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vignette: Merriam-Webster
  3. vignette: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vignette: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vignette: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vignette: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vignette, vignette: Wordnik
  8. vignette: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. vignette: Wiktionary
  10. vignette: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. vignette: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. vignette: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. vignette: Dictionary.com
  14. vignette: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Vignette (entertainment), Vignette (graphic design), Vignette (literature), Vignette (model), Vignette (professional wrestling), Vignette (psychology), Vignette (road tax), Vignette (software), Vignette (wrestling), Vignette: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vignette: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vignette: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vignette: Rhymezone
  19. Vignette: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vignette: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. vignette: FreeDictionary.org
  22. vignette: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. vignette: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. vignette: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. vignette: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Vignette: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Vignette: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. Vignette (disambiguation), vignette: Legal dictionary
  4. Vignette (disambiguation), Vignette: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vignette (disambiguation), Vignette (software), vignette: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. vignette: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vignette: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See vignetted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (architecture) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
noun:  (printing) 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.
noun:  (by extension) Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
noun:  (by extension) A short story or anecdote that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.
noun:  (philately) The central pictorial image on a postage stamp.
noun:  (photography) The characteristic of a camera lens, either by deficiency in design or by mismatch of the lens with the film format, that produces an image smaller than the film's frame with a crudely focused border. Photographers may deliberately choose this characteristic for a special effect.
noun:  (photography) Any effect in a photographic picture where qualities vanish towards the edges.
noun:  (computer graphics) A hardware deficiency (even occurring in most expensive models) of a computer display wherein the picture slants towards a colour or brightness towards the edges especially if viewed from an angle.
noun:  (automotive) A small sticker affixed to a vehicle windscreen to indicate that tolls have been paid.
verb:  To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away.

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