vitrine

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Jeff Koons 'Silver Bunny balloon sculpture in a vitrine -- a mistake.

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  1. noun A glass-paneled cabinet or case for displaying articles such as china, objects d'art, or fine merchandise.

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  • And TAP Plastics made me -- although I didn't photograph it -- a museum vitrine. —  Adam Savage's obsessions
  • On the floor of the vitrine was a heap of bright yellow symbols shaped like jacks but moving like tiny bugs. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
  • After half a dozen displays had been reduced to spots in the vitrine, a ghostly regularity appeared. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
  • We have to stop it now You can't do that," Raspail said, stepping instinctively closer to the holo vitrine, as if to protect the image in it How can you defend this?" —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
  • Jeff Koons 'Silver Bunny balloon sculpture in a vitrine -- a mistake. —  theartblog
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  1. French, from vitre, pane of glass, from Old French, glass, window with multiple lights, from Latin vitrum.

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  1. from French vitrine, from vitre, windowglass, from Latin vitrum, glass.
 

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