Vitrine vs Vitrite - What's the difference?
vitrine | vitrite |
A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, or fine merchandise.
* 1896 , Edward L. Wilson (ed.), "The Review of the Year Past", Photographic Mosaics , page 82
* 1919 , Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative , volume I, page 256
* 1996 , Leslie Glass, Hanging Time
A kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between vitrine and vitrite
is that vitrine is display case, display cabinet, while vitrite is a kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.vitrine
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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
- 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.
