Usually means: Short, evocative scenes or stories.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word vignettes:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. vignettes: Merriam-Webster
  2. vignettes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. vignettes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Vignette's, Vignettes, vignettes: Wordnik
  5. vignettes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. vignettes: Wiktionary
  7. vignettes: Dictionary.com
  8. Vignettes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. vignettes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vignettes: Legal dictionary
  2. vignettes: Financial dictionary

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  1. vignettes: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (vignette)

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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