vignettes

• accounts
• anecdota
• anecdotes
• characterizes
• chronicles
• clarifications
• defines
• definitions
• delineates
• delineations
• demonstrates
• demonstrations
• depictions
• depicts
• describes
• descriptions
• displays
• drafts
• draws
• elucidations
• exemplifications
• exhibits
• explanations
• explications
• expositions
• hints
• illustrates
• illustrations
• images
• labels
• limns
• narrates
• narratives
• outlines
• paints
• picture
• pictures
• portraits
• portraitures
• portrayals
• portrays
• qualifies
• recites
• recounts
• redescribes
• rehearses
• reimages
• relates
• renderings
• renders
• reports
• represents
• scenario
• scene
• sets out
• shows
• silhouettes
• sketch
• sketches
• stories
• story
• suggests
• summarizes
• sums up
• tales
• tells
• touches off
• traces
• yarns

• colors
• distorts
• falsifies
• garbles
• misdescribes
• misrepresents
• misstates
• perverts
• twists
• warps

• noun
  1. A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
  2. 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.
  3. (by extension) Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
  4. (by extension) A short story or anecdote that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.
  5. The central pictorial image on a postage stamp.
  6. The characteristic of a camera lens, either by deficiency in design or by mismatch of the lens with the film format, to produce an image smaller than the film's frame with a crudely focused border. Photographers may deliberately choose this characteristic for a special effect.
  7. A small sticker affixed to a vehicle windscreen to indicate that tolls have been paid.
• verb
  1. To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away.

• The book is filled with vignettes that capture small moments of everyday life.
• The movie contains several vignettes, each telling a different story of love and loss.
• The collection of short stories includes vignettes of life in rural America.
• The artist displayed vignettes of city life, each one rich in detail and emotion.
• His journal entries were like vignettes, brief but full of vivid imagery and feeling.

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images

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