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  • noun Plural form of vitrine.

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Examples

  • After all, who can deny the thrill of roaming at one's leisure through a fabled art wonderland, or of reading personal typed and handwritten letters from Adolph Gottlieb and Louise Nevelson, which are presented in vitrines at both the 534 West 25th Street and 34 East 57th Street spaces?

    Dorothy Spears: Pedigree and Promise in 50 Years At Pace Dorothy Spears 2010

  • After all, who can deny the thrill of roaming at one's leisure through a fabled art wonderland, or of reading personal typed and handwritten letters from Adolph Gottlieb and Louise Nevelson, which are presented in vitrines at both the 534 West 25th Street and 34 East 57th Street spaces?

    Dorothy Spears: Pedigree and Promise in 50 Years At Pace Dorothy Spears 2010

  • The girls slinked out of the bathroom one by one, andpressed to the wall Mission Impossible styleshuffled past some old-looking glass cabinets called vitrines.

    Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006

  • The girls slinked out of the bathroom one by one, andpressed to the wall Mission Impossible styleshuffled past some old-looking glass cabinets called vitrines.

    Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006

  • I am also curious about his own perception of the irony of sharks in "vitrines" being displayed in a building dedicated to marine science.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Mr. Tennant, who began collecting butterflies during childhood summers in Cape Cod, said the cases are inspired by vitrines made by hobbyists during the Victorian era. hausinterior.com

    Fresh Picks 2011

  • The galleries are dark, with black walls, black floors and simple, pinpoint-lighted vitrines with no visible frames.

    A Display of Lalique's Beauty Judy Fayard 2011

  • And finally, there are doll houses in vitrines, that are populated with insects.

    Tracey Harnish: Jennifer Angus at CAFAM Tracey Harnish 2011

  • First, a word about the Windows Gallery: It consists of 13 vitrines, 70 by 80 inches, on the outside of the Kimmel Center—eight on LaGuardia Place and five around the corner on West Third Street.

    Sweetness and Light: Reveling in Simplicity William Meyers 2011

  • The exhibition snakes through one of the palace's state rooms, with double-sided vitrines that make it possible to take two routes to see these miniature objects at eye-level, without feeling oppressed by the crowds that are sure to flock to this show.

    A Palace's Small Treasures Paul Levy 2011

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