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vitrine

/vɪˈtɹiːn/

vitrine noun: a glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, fine merchandise, natural history specimens, etc.

Noun

vitrine (plural vitrines)

  1. A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, fine merchandise, natural history specimens, etc.
    • 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
    • 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

vitrine meaning in Urdu and Persian

vitrine in Urdu

شیشے کی الماری

vitrine in Persian

glass-paneled cabinet or case
ویترین vitrin

Synonyms of vitrine

Forms of vitrine

pluralvitrines

Origin of vitrine

Borrowed from French vitrine, from vitre (“pane of glass”), from Old French, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).

Questions about vitrine

What does vitrine mean?
Vitrine means a glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, fine merchandise, natural history specimens, etc.
What is vitrine in Urdu?
Vitrine in Urdu is شیشے کی الماری. See Vitrine meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is vitrine?
Vitrine is a noun.
How do you pronounce vitrine?
Vitrine is pronounced /vɪˈtɹiːn/ (UK).
What is the plural of vitrine?
The plural of vitrine is vitrines.

Words near vitrine in the dictionary

  1. vitriform
  2. vitrify
  3. vitrifying
  4. vitrimer
  5. vitrimers
  6. vitrine
  7. vitrines
  8. vitrinid
  9. vitrinids
  10. vitrinite
  11. vitrinites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vitrine (page history and authors); vitrine (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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