Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A glass-paneled cabinet or case for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, or fine merchandise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A show-case; a case or inclosure of glass for the display of delicate articles, whether in a museum, a private house, or a shop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A glass show case for displaying fine wares, specimens, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
glass -paneledcabinet orcase , especially fordisplaying articles such aschina , objets d'art, or fine merchandise.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The pieces have a shadow box feel to them because each episode is contained in some kind of vitrine like container, including a large suspended sphere that is a whole world unto itself.
Tracey Harnish: Devastation of the American Dream Tracey Harnish 2011
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"Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building" through Jan. 28 at the Otis College of Art and Design, for instance, would probably be an amen-corner jumble were it not for the time, womanpower and scrutiny the gallery was able to give to wall upon wall, and vitrine upon vitrine, of primary source material from the mid-'70s salad days of the women's movement in the Los Angeles art world.
Laying Claim to Its Place in the Sun Peter Plagens 2011
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In one encapsulated vitrine, we see a woman with a suitcase leading two children through a forest.
Tracey Harnish: Devastation of the American Dream Tracey Harnish 2011
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In one encapsulated vitrine, we see a woman with a suitcase leading two children through a forest.
Tracey Harnish: Devastation of the American Dream Tracey Harnish 2011
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The pieces have a shadow box feel to them because each episode is contained in some kind of vitrine like container, including a large suspended sphere that is a whole world unto itself.
Tracey Harnish: Devastation of the American Dream Tracey Harnish 2011
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The pieces have a shadow box feel to them because each episode is contained in some kind of vitrine like container, including a large suspended sphere that is a whole world unto itself.
Tracey Harnish: Devastation of the American Dream Tracey Harnish 2011
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Either way, it feels like a privilege to be able to pick up and leaf through such an extensive display rather than gaze mutely at it through the glass of a vitrine.
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A glass vitrine of bullets spells out the ranks of the Sudanese army.
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Either way, it feels like a privilege to be able to pick up and leaf through such an extensive display rather than gaze mutely at it through the glass of a vitrine.
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In one encapsulated vitrine, we see a woman with a suitcase leading two children through a forest.
Tracey Harnish: Devastation of the American Dream Tracey Harnish 2011
jaime_d commented on the word vitrine
From "Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier" by Guy Davenport
January 19, 2010