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"ref": "2007, Peter Charles Taylor, John Wallace, Contemporary Qualitative Research, Springer Science & Business Media, page 126",
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"ref": "2019 March 1, Marina Hyde, “Chris Grayling is the Berk du Soleil as Farage maps out a road to nowhere”, in The Guardian",
"text": "I have two favourite vignettes from the voting lobbies on Wednesday night. The first is the news that one minister told the Tory chief whip, Julian Smith: “You don’t know what you’re doing,” to which Smith replied, “I do know what I’m doing”.",
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"ref": "1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Book Five, Chapter 68",
"text": "Long minutes afterwards the sun disclosed itself, high above the earth's rim, over a vignetted bank of edgeless mist.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1937, Robert Byron, “Saoma”, in The Road to Oxiana",
"text": "Along the wainscot lie heaps of bolsters and quilts, covered with old-fashioned chintzes. Before the War these chintzes were specially made in Russia for the Central Asian market: one bolster depicts steamships, early motor-cars, and the first aeroplane, vignetted in circles of flowers on a vermilion background.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away."
],
"links": [
[
"engraving",
"engraving"
],
[
"photograph",
"photograph"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/vɪnˈjɛt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛt"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-vignette.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cb/En-us-vignette.ogg/En-us-vignette.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/En-us-vignette.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-vignette.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6d/En-au-vignette.ogg/En-au-vignette.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/En-au-vignette.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "vĭn-yĕtʹ"
}
],
"word": "vignette"
}
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