vitrine
See also: Vitrine
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French vitrine, from vitre (“pane of glass”), from Old French, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /vɪˈtɹiːn/, /vəˈtɹiːn/
Noun
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, Edward L. Wilson (ed.), "The Review of the Year Past", 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.
Related terms
- vitreous
Translations
glass-paneled cabinet or case
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Further reading
- Showcase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- inviter
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French vitrine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌviˈtri.nə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: vi‧tri‧ne
- Rhymes: -inə
Noun
vitrine f (plural vitrines, diminutive vitrinetje n)
- vitrine, showcase
- shop window
Related terms
- vitrage
- vitriool
French
Etymology
From verrine, remodelled after its etymon, Latin vitrum (“glass”). Synchronically, from vitre (“pane of glass”) + -ine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi.tʁin/
audio (file)
Noun
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 ― to do shopping
- lécher les vitrines ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- vitrine (glass-paneled cabinet or case for displaying articles)
- les vitrines d'un musée
- the vitrines of a museum
Derived terms
- lèche-vitrine
Related terms
- vitrail
Descendants
- → Catalan: vitrina
- → Danish: vitrine
- → English: vitrine
- → Galician: vitrina
- → German: Vitrine
- → Greek: βιτρίνα (vitrína)
- → Portuguese: vitrine, vitrina
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin: vitrína
- Cyrillic: витри́на
- → Spanish: vitrina
- → Swedish: vitrin
Further reading
- “vitrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- vitrine on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Anagrams
- inviter
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- vitrina
Etymology
Borrowed from French vitrine.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /viˈtɾĩ.ni/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /viˈtɾi.ne/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /viˈtɾi.n(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: vi‧tri‧ne
Noun
vitrine f (plural vitrines)
- shop window (large window at the front of a shop used to display goods)
- Synonym: montra