1
- a brief evocative description, account, or episode（唤起联想的简短）描写; 介绍; 插曲。
2
- a small illustration or portrait photograph which fades into its background without a definite border虚光照, 虚光画像, 晕映照, 晕映画像。
2.1
- a small ornamental design filling a space in a book or carving, typically based on foliage（书或雕刻的）蔓叶花饰; 小花饰。
with obj.
1- portray (someone) in the style of a vignette为…绘制晕映画像。
1.1
- produce (a photograph) in the style of a vignette by softening or shading away the edges of the subject使（照片）晕映, 把（照片）印放为虚光照。
派生词
vignettist
noun词源
late Middle English （in sense 2; also as an architectural term denoting a carved representation of a vine）： from French， diminutive of vigne 'vine'.