Vignette vs Vicissitude - What's the difference?
vignette | vicissitude |
(architecture) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
(printing) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position.
(by extension) Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
(by extension) A short story or anecdote that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.
The small picture on a postage stamp.
(photography) The characteristic of a camera lens, either by deficiency in design or by mismatch of the lens with the film format, to produce an image smaller than the film's frame with a crudely focused border. Photographers may deliberately choose this characteristic for a special effect.
To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away.
Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
(often, in the plural) a change, especially in one's life or fortunes.
* 1667 , , Paradise Lost , vii, 351,
* 2003 , "US redeployments afoot in Asia", Christian Science Monitor , Nov. 18, Pg. 6.,
* Seneca
As nouns the difference between vignette and vicissitude
is that vignette is sticker, adhesive label while vicissitude is regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.vignette
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* vignetter * vignettistSee also
* colophon * coronisVerb
(vignett)Derived terms
* vignetting ----vicissitude
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(en noun)- And God made.. the Stars, and set them in the firmament of Heaven to illuminate the Earth, and rule the day in their vicissitude ...
- The vicissitudes of war in Iraq cast a dreary backdrop for Donald Rumsfeld's first visit to Asian military allies since he became US Defense Secretary in 2001.
- Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.