vitrine
See also: Vitrine
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Borrowed from French vitrine, from vitre (“pane of glass”), from Old French, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).
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vitrine (plural vitrines)
- A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, or fine merchandise.
- Synonyms: showcase, display case
- 1896, “The Review of the Year Past”, in Edward L. Wilson, editor, Photographic Mosaics, page 82:
- Lastly, when great numbers of the plates are treated with the hot or boiling water, it should be done in a vitrine or cabinet ventilated directly into the open air.
- 1919, Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative, volume I, page 256:
- The Princess offered us tea and wine, and we talked for a long time, and then she must show us her house, filled with tapestries, paintings and bibelots and, in a vitrine in a room upstairs, a wonderful collection of fans painted by Carlo van Loo […]
- 1996, Leslie Glass, Hanging Time:
- Checking behind him nervously, the dealer was trying to concentrate on showing Bouck some small art-glass pieces in a vitrine in the middle of the booth.
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glass-paneled cabinet or case
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vitrine f (plural vitrines, diminutive vitrinetje n)
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From verrine, remodelled after its etymon, Latin vitrum (“glass”). By surface analysis, vitre (“pane of glass”) + -ine.
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vitrine f (plural vitrines)
- shop window
- Synonym: devanture
- la vitrine d’une librairie ― the window of a bookstore
- décorer la vitrine ― to decorate the shop window
- (by extension) shopping
- faire les vitrines, lécher les vitrines ― to go window-shopping
- vitrine (glass-paneled cabinet or case for displaying articles)
- les vitrines d’un musée ― the vitrines of a museum
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- “vitrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- vitrine on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
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- Hyphenation: vi‧tri‧ne
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vitrine f (plural vitrines)
- shop window (large window at the front of a shop used to display goods)
- Synonym: montra