vitrine

Borrowed from French vitrine, from vitre (“pane of glass”), from Old French, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /vɪˈtɹiːn/, /vəˈtɹiːn/

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vitrine (plural vitrines)

1. 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.

• vitreous

• Showcase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• inviter

Borrowed from French vitrine.

• IPA^(key): /ˌviˈtri.nə/

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• Hyphenation: vi‧tri‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

vitrine f (plural vitrines, diminutive vitrinetje n)

1. vitrine, showcase
2. shop window

• vitrage
• vitriool

From verrine, remodelled after its etymon, Latin vitrum (“glass”). By surface analysis, vitre (“pane of glass”) +‎ -ine.

• IPA^(key): /vi.tʁin/

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vitrine f (plural vitrines)

1. shop window

   Synonym: devanture

   la vitrine d’une librairie ― the window of a bookstore

   décorer la vitrine ― to decorate the shop window

2. (by extension) shopping

   faire les vitrines, lécher les vitrines ― to go window-shopping

3. vitrine (glass-paneled cabinet or case for displaying articles)

   les vitrines d’un musée ― the vitrines of a museum

• lèche-vitrine

• vitrail

• “vitrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• vitrine on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• inviter

• vitrina

Borrowed from French vitrine.

• Hyphenation: vi‧tri‧ne

vitrine f (plural vitrines)

1. shop window (large window at the front of a shop used to display goods)

   Synonym: montra