vitrine
nounUK, US /vɪˈtɹiːn/
Etymology Borrowed from French vitrine, from vitre (“pane of glass”), from Old French, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).
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A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, fine merchandise, natural history specimens, etc.
- 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.1896, “The Review of the Year Past”, in Edward L. Wilson, editor, Photographic Mosaics, page 82:
- 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[…]1919, Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative, volume I, page 256:
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- 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.1996, Leslie Glass, Hanging Time:
- Related terms
- vitreous