English-French translations for vignette

• vignette
  Un point qui est peut-être plus important: le système de péage routier par vignette en cours d'introduction en Slovénie est temporaire. Perhaps an even more important point: the vignette method of collecting road tolls which is being introduced by Slovenia is temporary.
  Et ce, contrairement à l'augmentation du prix de l'euro-vignette fixe qui n'incite justement pas à une baisse de la mobilité. This in contrast to raising the price of the inflexible Euro-vignette which does nothing to reduce mobility.

Definition of vignette

• A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture
• Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge
• The central pictorial image on a postage stamp
• The characteristic of a camera lens, either by deficiency in design or by mismatch of the lens with the film format, to produce an image smaller than the film's frame with a crudely focused border. Photographers may deliberately choose this characteristic for a special effect
• To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away

Related words

• vignetting
• vignette#vignette (Angla)
• kirjallinen) vignette