Noun: vitrine
| Singular | vitrine |
| Plural | vitrines |
Sample Sentences
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Lastly, when great numbers of the plates are treated with the hot or boiling water, it should be done in a vitrine or cabinet ventilated directly into the open air. [1896, “The Review of the Year Past”, in Edward L. Wilson, editor, Photographic Mosaics, page 82:]
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The Princess offered us tea and wine, and we talked for a long time, and then she must show us her house, filled with tapestries, paintings and bibelots and, in a vitrine in a room upstairs, a wonderful collection of fans painted by Carlo van Loo[…] [1919, Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative, volume I, page 256:]
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Checking behind him nervously, the dealer was trying to concentrate on showing Bouck some small art-glass pieces in a vitrine in the middle of the booth. [1996, Leslie Glass, Hanging Time:]
Nouns inflected like vitrine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French vitrine, from vitre (“pane of glass”), from Old French, from Latin vitrum (“glass”). See: French Nouns '
vitrine', Latin Nouns '
vitrum'.