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VIGNETTE (Fr. for " little vine ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 61 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VIGNETTE (Fr. for " little See also:vine ")  , in See also:architecture, a See also:running See also:ornament, representing, as its name imports, a little See also:vine, with branches, leaves and grapes . It is See also:common in the Tudor See also:period, and runs or roves in a large hollow or See also:casement . It is also called trayle . From the transference of the See also:term to See also:book-See also:illustration resulted the sense of a small picture, vanishing gradually at the edge .

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