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vignette is a noun meaning "a brief literary description". It is pronounced /vɪˈnjɛt/ — vi-NYET. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a brief literary description
a photograph whose edges shade off gradually
a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vignette come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.