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Vignette vs Vicissitude - What's the difference?

vignette | vicissitude |

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

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * vignetter * vignettist

    See also

    * colophon * coronis

    Verb

    (vignett)
  • To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away.

    • Derived terms

    * vignetting ----

    vicissitude

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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,
    • And God made.. the Stars, and set them in the firmament of Heaven to illuminate the Earth, and rule the day in their vicissitude ...
  • * 2003 , "US redeployments afoot in Asia", Christian Science Monitor , Nov. 18, Pg. 6.,
    • 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.
  • * Seneca
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * ups and downs (informal)

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