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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
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vine ")
  , in architecture, a
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running ornament, representing, as its name imports, a little
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vine, with branches, leaves and grapes . It is
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common in the Tudor period, and runs or roves in a large hollow or casement . It is also called trayle . From the transference of the
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term to
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book-
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illustration resulted the sense of a small picture, vanishing gradually at the edge .

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