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noun A decorative design placed at the beginning or end of a book or chapter of a book or along the border of a page.
noun An unbordered picture, often a portrait, that shades off into the surrounding color at the edges.
noun A short, usually descriptive literary sketch.

There is a literary form, all but forgotten these days, formally known as the vignette and more familiarly as the short-short. — EBSCOhost
I also have a personal vignette which is at least some way down the path from anectdote to evidence; e.g., a personal "series." — MacInTouch
The initial vignette, which is by Faucher-Gudin, represents a royal figure kneeling and holding a large nail in both hands. — History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12)
That in a vignette is the trouble in all this discussion. — Mankind in the Making
Higher in the corner house, and so near the roof that it scarcely seemed possible for a grown man to stand upright behind it, was an oeil de boeuf looking down upon the other roofs, and framed in that circular opening like a vignette was the handsome face of Major Ostrander. — Tales of Trail and Town